Posts with the category “going-deeper”

Mark 10:1-121 He set out from there and went to the region of Judea and across the Jordan. Then crowds converged on him again, and as was his custom he taught them again. 2 Some Pharisees came to test him, asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife? ” 3 He replied to them, “What did Moses command you? ”4 They said, “Moses permitted us to write divorce papers and send her away.”5 But Jesus...  Read More

Mark 9:30-50 30 Then they left that place and made their way through Galilee, but he did not want anyone to know it. 31 For he was teaching his disciples and telling them, “The Son of Man is going to be betrayed[fn] into the hands of men. They will kill him, and after he is killed, he will rise three days later.” 32 But they did not understand this statement, and they were afraid to ask him. 33 Th...  Read More

It’s not until you admit, “I’m blind. I sit in darkness, and unless God comes to me, I’ve been living in denial about my situation before God,” that you can begin to see your real condition.  Read More

Mark 9:14-29    14 When they came to the disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and scribes disputing with them. 15 When the whole crowd saw him, they were amazed and ran to greet him. 16 He asked them, “What are you arguing with them about? ” 17 Someone from the crowd answered him, “Teacher, I brought my son to you. He has a spirit that makes him unable to speak. 18 Whenever it seizes him,...  Read More

Mark 9:2-13 / His Glory Revealed Sermon Study Guide  Read More

Desperate need doesn’t make us weak. It shows us reality. It shows us where we really stand before God—what we truly need. And sooner or later, everybody ends up at that point.  Read More

My family served in the Philippines as missionaries in a little village on Luzon. The mission had a little helicopter to shuttle us in and out of the village and to transport us in case there were medical emergencies. This was a jet turbine helicopter, a miracle of modern engineering. It's so cool it could make a grown man weep. Just amazing.The flight to our village on the coast was about 30 minu...  Read More

Before the call to maturity comes the gift of identity.   Read More

The gospel isn't just a message to believe once and then forget. It's the truth that works its way down into every area of life. If you don't know him, you need him. And if you do know him, he's calling you to rest in him.   Read More

There are times when you can see in his Word that you're being called to obedience even without seeing how he's going to provide, before you can see the outcome, before you can see how the future's going to work out. That's the walk of faith. We need to follow Jesus in more than words; we need to follow him in how we live.   Read More

There is a danger that Jesus would become familiar to us without seeing him for who he really is—to assume that because we’ve seen Jesus in one light, we’ve got him all figured out.  Read More

Mark 5:21-43 Desperate need doesn’t make us weak. It just shows us life as it is. It doesn’t make us fragile. It shows us what we always were. And God, in his word, has plenty to say about the value of sobering up to your desperate need before him.Psalm 90:12 says this, “Teach us to number our days carefully so that we may develop wisdom in our hearts.” Help us to think about this, God, in a way t...  Read More

Who then is this, who even the wind and the waves obey?   Read More

Why doesn't God do more and bigger miracles? Why doesn't Jesus speak more plainly? Why doesn't God just make it more obvious about who he is and what's going on?  Read More