Why did Jesus speak in Parables? The answer might surprise you. The video link is here: Mark 4… Parables and a Storm The audio links are to the right i.e. Spotify and iTunes. Here is the transcript used for this podcast: Mark 4 – Parables and a Storm Parables aren’t a cute literary vehicle to […]

For the first time in Mark’s Gospel, Jesus turns His attention to the religious leadership directly, and does not back down. Here is the video link: Mark 3:7-35 The audio links i.e Spotify and iTunes are to the right. Here is the transcript today’s podcast was based on: Mark 3:7-35 The Battle is Joined 7 Jesus […]

You would think a man getting healed in the synagogue on the Sabbath would be a good thing, right? The God Who heals shows up, a miracle takes place right in front of their eyes. Grounds for celebration and worship, right? Not everybody thought so. Here is the video link to today’s podcast: Mark 3:1-6 […]

In this Podcast we read about more interactions between Jesus and the teachers of the Law and Pharisees. All this made me think about the juxtaposition of church tradition with what God says in His word. Tradition isn’t bad in and of itself until it gets put on the same authoritative level as the Words […]

Who did Jesus claim to be? He never hid that from anyone. But rather than stand on a street corner in Jerusalem and campaign for His Divinity, He simply did what you would expect God to do – wherever He went, He would heal lepers, heal the lame, divine the thoughts of His enemies, and […]

Introduction To encourage his readers to persevere through suffering and persecution, Mark presents Jesus as the Servant-Messiah and Son of God who died as a ransom for sinners. Mark is said to have been a companion of Peter, and therefore this Gospel he penned would be his compilation of the preaching of that great Apostle. […]

 I can see where Paul got some of his ideas about our sin and the salvation God offers to us. This Psalm is chock full of great material on the subject of forgiveness, our iniquity, our transgressions etc. It’s all here. Here is the video link: Psalm 32 – Blessed is the Man… Audio links […]

This Psalm has so many powerful moments in it. While reading it, memories flooded in, causing me to remember a very terrible period in my life and also remembering how God delivered me from it. The audio links i.e. Spotify and iTunes are to the right, and the video link is here: Psalms 33 Here […]

The Psalmist has gone through a time when he thought he was going to die, and apparently, God was silent. What did the Psalmist do? Here is the video link: Psalm 30… What to do when God is silent The audio links are to the right. Here is the transcript used for today’s podcast: Psalm […]

It’s interesting that the Psalmist uses the violent aspects of nature to represent the voice of God – thunder, lightning, stormy seas, earthquakes, and tornados. Is there a subliminal message here? The video link is here: Psalm 29 – the Voice of God The audio links are to the right… i.e. Spotify and iTunes Here […]