Written on My Heart

Have you ever heard of that natural phenomenon, that when you spend more time with a person you begin to look, talk, and act more like them? It's true. I have found that the more time I spend with my fiance, the more I look like him, say things similarly, and even laugh alike. This…

Genealogies: In the Heart

Exodus 4:24-26; NET24 - Now on the way, at a place where they stopped for the night, the LORD met Moses and sought to kill him. 25 - But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off the foreskin of her son and touched it to Moses' feet, and said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of…

Genealogies: Judah and Tamar

The attention is brought to the next names in Jesus' genealogy, Judah and Tamar. "Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, Judah the father of Perez and Zerah (by Tamar)..." Matthew 1:2, 3a; NET It wasn't long after Jacob sank into a permanent…

“Watch Out…”

It's only three verses in this next section of Mark 12 but it is no less powerful. In these verses Jesus continues to expose the hypocrisy of the teachers of the law. Let's check it out in Mark 12:38-40: 38 - As he taught, Jesus said, "Watch out for the teachers of the law. They…

It’s All Foretold

Peter, James, and John were coming back down from the hill with Jesus after His transformation and talk with Elijah and Moses and it seems the three disciples were mulling over something. Mark 9:10 says, "So they kept it to themselves, but they often asked each other what he meant by 'rising from the dead.'"…

To See God Clearly

All too often I tend to blow things way out of proportion. I overthink things and apply it to where it shouldn't be applied. Unfortunately, I often put words in God's mouth when in reality, what I thought He said is not what He said at all. And when I take a much needed step…