DISCIPLESHIP
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Daily Readings: Mark 9 and Psalm 60 24 Immediately the boy’s father exclaimed, ‘I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!’ The demonised boy’s father was desperate for his son to be healed. He firmly believed that Jesus could bring deliverance and healing to his son. And yet at the same time, he found doubts rising.
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Daily Readings: Mark 8 and Psalm 59 15 ‘Be careful,’ Jesus warned them. ‘Watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees and that of Herod.’ In rabbinical writings “yeast” was symbolic of the intentions of the human heart. So, although the disciples misunderstood what Jesus was trying to say, we should apply our minds to it. What common
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Daily Readings: Mark 5 and Psalm 56 Jesus had just demonstrated His power and authority over the forces of nature in Mark 4:35-41 by calming a violent storm on Lake Galilee. Now, in Mark 5, Jesus stilled storms of a different kind. First, He stilled a violent demonic storm with His word of command. Next,
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Daily Readings: Mark 4 and Psalm 55 Mark 4 records four of Jesus’ parables about the Kingdom of God, each teaching us in a different way about the power of God’s Word to bring about the growth of the Kingdom. And then the chapter ends with Jesus miraculously calming a storm with the power of
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Daily Readings: Mark 3 and Psalm 54 So much happens in Mark 3, but the unifying theme that seems to surface for me in my devotional time today is this: You either receive Jesus as the Son of God (v.11), submit to His Lordship and obey Him OR resist Him, refuse to accept His Lordship
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Believe it or not, we have completed the Gospel of John; and we now turn our attention to the two shortest letters written by the same apostle John; namely, 2 John (today) and 3 John (on Monday). Daily Readings: 2 John 1 and Psalm 50 Because John wrote this letter at a time of intense
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Daily Readings: John 16 and Psalm 49 13 But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on His own; He will speak only what He hears, and He will tell you what is yet to come. 14 He will glorify Me because it is from Me
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Daily Readings: John 14 and Psalm 47 Having reflected on John 12 and 13 in Holy Week, we now skip forward to John 14. Jesus and the apostles were in the Upper Room (although Judas Iscariot had already left to betray Jesus), and Jesus began to speak of what life would be like for them
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Daily Readings: John 11 and Psalm 46 In John 11 we witness Jesus’ greatest miracle – the raising of Lazarus from the dead after four days in the tomb – as well as Jesus’ own profound statement, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they
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Daily Readings: John 10 and Psalm 45 In John 10, Jesus describes His relationship with us (His disciples/followers) as being like a good shepherd’s relationship with his sheep. He describes Himself as the Good Shepherd who loves us, His sheep, so deeply that He is willing to lay down His life to save us (v.11,
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