Mark continues to tell Jesus’s story from His transfiguration up until He was taken up into Heaven. Mark spent most of his time focusing on Jesus’s ministry and teachings while only spending 2 chapters on his crucifixion, death and resurrection. I was impressed by the fact that during His arrest, trial and death, Jesus...
Mark begins when Jesus is beginning His ministry. Jesus warns the disciples and the remainder of His followers to beware of their desire to follow the traditions and rules that had been put in place by the Pharisees and social pressure from their current culture. How often do we give into society even when...
Jesus continues to serve the world before His crucifixion, by trying to teach them the truth in how God loves them and healing many people. Jesus doesn’t hide who He is from others or ever deny who is. His greatest commandment is to love God with our whole body, mind and soul, with a...
The New Testament opens with the book of Matthew. Matthew is one of the four books that make up the gospels: the story of Christ. Chapters one through fourteen covers the birth of Jesus and the beginning of His ministry. Nothing that Jesus does during the first half of Matthew is to bring glory...
Malachi is the very last chapter of the Old Testament. Israel is being reminded of God’s love, that they have been chosen over Esau, but they continue to dishonor God with sacrifices that are blemished. He reminds Israel that they are to remain faithful to their marriages, just as they should remain faithful to...
Zechariah felt like a hidden gem tucked away at the end of the Old Testament. It contains a ton of prophecies about the coming Messiah as well as the coming Millennial Kingdom. I did not know that it Palm Sunday and Jesus coming into the city riding on a donkey. It is incredibly comforting...
The Saturday before Easter (two days ago) I was supposed to have finished reading through the entire Bible in 90 days, but I am not done yet. I felt a lot of feelings about it, from anger to disappointment and a whole bunch of other feelings mixed in there. I felt like a failure,...
I am learning more than I ever thought was possible while “reading the entire bible in 90 days”. I say that in quotes because while there are exactly 90 readings that I will do, it will not be done in 90 days and my perfectionist self has learned to be okay with that. I...
Obadiah and Jonah do not have very much in common. They were likely written by different authors, at different times, covering entirely different event, but they both cover consequences of obeying and disobeying God. Edom which was filled with the descendants of Esau were punished for their actions towards Israel, the house of Jacob....
Today’s reading was a little different, it covered two books. While they were short, they had different, but similar messages. The prophets are still warning that judgement is coming or has arrived and both Israel and Judah refuse to listen. In Joel, Israel has nothing left, the locusts have eaten everything, but are given...
