Imagine you were deaf your whole life, and one touch from Jesus opened your ears. Could you keep that to yourself? In Mark 7, Jesus took a deaf man with a speech impediment aside, put His fingers in his ears, touched his tongue, and said, “Ephphatha,” that is, “Be opened.” Immediately his ears were opened,…

What if I told you the biggest threat to your life isn’t what you eat, watch, or hear? In Mark 7, Jesus called the crowd together and said that nothing outside a person going into him can defile him. It’s what comes out that defiles. Food enters the stomach, light enters the eyes, and sound…

Picture this: your friend is sick. Really sick. You wouldn’t just text, “Hope you feel better.” No, you’d carry them to the doctor. That’s exactly what happened in Mark 6. When the boat landed, people recognized Jesus and ran through the whole region, bringing the sick on mats to wherever He was. In villages, cities,…

Sometimes you and I get into a struggle and wonder if God even notices. Well, the Gospel of Mark, chapter 6, gives us hope. In that chapter, the disciples were rowing hard, straining against the wind. They were struggling. But their struggle wasn’t unnoticed. Jesus wasn’t with them. He was praying alone up on a…

Have you ever been overlooked by the people who know you best? You try to do something great or different, and they can’t get over the fact that you’re just some snot-nosed kid who grew up right where they did, and they start to despise you for acting like you’re “too good.” Jesus faced this…

Listen to the words of Jesus from Mark 4:21-25: “Is a lamp brought in to be put under a basket, or under a bed, and not on a stand? For nothing is hidden except to be made manifest; nor is anything secret except to come to light. If anyone has ears to hear, let him…

Anyone can look like a Christian for a week or a month. So what’s the proof that God’s Word and the gospel have truly taken root in your heart? Well, in Mark 4, Jesus helps us with the answer by telling a story, a parable. He describes a sower scattering seed on four soils. Some…

What qualifies you to do great things? Your resumé? Your education? Your status? Look at who Jesus chose. In Mark 3, he goes up on the mountain and appoints twelve men. Four were fishermen: Simon Peter, Andrew, James, and John. They smelled like fish and had calloused hands from working. One was Matthew, a tax…

Have you ever felt like you just couldn’t find relief? The crowds in Mark 3 knew that feeling. They came from far and wide — Galilee, Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, and beyond the Jordan. And they packed so tightly around Jesus that He asked for a boat so He wouldn’t be crushed. Why did they come?…

We as human beings just get tired. I was so sleepy driving home the other day from my son’s football practice at like 6:30 PM that my eyelids felt like they weighed a hundred pounds. I could barely stay awake to drive. When I got home, I went straight to bed at like 7:00. Maybe…