Topic:Saving Or Losing? A DAILY DEVOTION FOR JANUARY 15TH READ THE SCRIPTURE: MARK 8:34-38 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it. Mark 8:35 Who is not interested in saving their lives, in making them worthwhile, full and rich, worth the living? Deep down …
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Topic:The Necessity Of The Cross A DAILY DEVOTION FOR JANUARY 14TH READ THE SCRIPTURE: MARK 8:22-33 He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again. Mark 8:31 Christianity without …
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Topic:Do You Not Yet Understand? A DAILY DEVOTION FOR JANUARY 13TH READ THE SCRIPTURE: MARK 7:31-8:21 Why are you talking about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Are your hearts hardened? Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear? And don’t you remember? Mark 8:17b-18 In this series of questions, …
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Topic:When Right Is Wrong A DAILY DEVOTION FOR JANUARY 12TH READ THE SCRIPTURE: MARK 6:53-7:30 He replied, Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written: ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men. Mark 7:6-7 Those …
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Topic:Who Is This? A DAILY DEVOTION FOR JANUARY 11TH READ THE SCRIPTURE: MARK 6:7-52 Then he climbed into the boat with them, and the wind died down. They were completely amazed for they had not understood about the loaves; their hearts were hardened. Mark 6:51-52 We cannot understand this last miracle unless we see it as a kind of examination …
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Topic:Seeing Through A DAILY DEVOTION FOR JANUARY 10TH READ THE SCRIPTURE: MARK 5:21-6:6 He could not do any miracles there, except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them. And he was amazed at their lack of faith. Then Jesus went around teaching from village to village. Mark 6:5-6 We can gather up the meaning of this …
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Topic:No Faith A daily devotion for January 9th Do you still have no faith? Mark 4:40c This is why people become afraid–because they lose faith. Faith is the answer to fear. Faith is always the answer to our fears, regardless of what they are. Jesus put His finger right on it: “Do you still have no faith?” Well, evidently they …
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Topic:Secrets Revealed A daily devotion for January 8th With many similar parables Jesus spoke the word to them, as much as they could understand. Mark 4:33 This verse presents one great rule of revelation: God only reveals “as much as they could understand.” Jesus teaches people only as they can take it. This is the rule upon which God works …
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Topic:Seed Thoughts A daily devotion for January 7th He also said, “This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.” Mark 4:26-27 This is a secret of the kingdom of God, and to …
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Topic:The Perils Of Popularity A daily devotion for January 6th Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the lake, and a large crowd from Galilee followed. When they heard all he was doing, many people came to him from Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, and the regions across the Jordan and around Tyre and Sidon. Mark 3:7-8 We have difficulty grasping the size …
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