Category: Daily Devotion

  According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. 1 Corinthians 3:10 – Paul is addressing the division that he was hearing about within the Corinthian church. Division over which…

  The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. 1 Corinthians 2:14 – Something you’d learn about me if you hung around me is that sports is not at all a part of…

For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles…1 Corinthians‬ ‭1‬:‭22‬-‭23‬ ‭- Corinth was a unique city for Paul to preach at. It was wealthy, learned, and highly sinful. In the city was both Jews and Greeks, and both were looking for…

  So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. Mark 16:19 – Recently I was reading though Hebrews 8 in a Bible study at church, and this is where scripture speaks of Jesus as our eternal, high priest. There we see…

  And Pilate again asked him, “Have you no answer to make? See how many charges they bring against you.” 5 But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate was amazed. Mark 15:4-5 – Good Friday has passed but today is a Friday and it is good because of the events of our chapter. Mark 15 is this…

  There were some who said to themselves indignantly, “Why was the ointment wasted like that?” Mark 14:4 – From the other Gospels we get a few more details surrounding this account. We know the lady anointing Jesus was Mary, the sister of Martha and Lazarus. We also know that the key person to complain…

And Jesus began to say to them, “See that no one leads you astray. Mark‬ ‭13‬:‭5‬ ‭- For guys who have been struggling to understand the most basic of parables and who were worrying about having enough food to eat immediately after Jesus fed the 5000, hearing the words of Jesus in the chapter must…

  He had still one other, a beloved son. Finally he sent him to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ 7 But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’ 8 And they took him and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard. Mark 12:6-8 – In a…

  And he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple. And when he had looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve. Mark 11:11 – Jesus entered into the city of Jerusalem in splendor, and where did Jesus go first? Straight to the temple. In our verse…

  And they came to Jericho. And as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a great crowd, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the roadside. Mark 10:46 – We see that Jesus is about to enter into Jerusalem within the next chapter, so this means He is at the end…