There was a man in Jerusalem who spent his days like a good number of guys on Dundalk Avenue just now. He sat in his place asking people if they could spare a coin or two. Lame in both legs, he was seen as cursed, as most of those with...
Three seekers, three deliverances: this is what the text of Mark 5 gives to us. The records of the events contained in these sentences reveal the Son’s command over demons, disease, and death. This chapter also points to what the action of faith can bring about. First, let’s note that...
A man got used. This man was just stumbling about. He fell again and again. His bruised body was hard to look at. Nothing worked for him as his disease progressed. He spent some days begging, others he just laid around. Few were willing grant any aid to him. He...
She hobbled into the synagogue. Again. For 18 years, she staggered to the meeting place, to the house of the Lord, hunchbacked and afflicted to such a degree that she could not look up. What kept her coming? Hope, I think it was. She believed that someday she would leave...
The last shall be first. Jesus said these words more than once. And those who heard the Savior say them were mystified. Even the ones who hung out with Jesus most were confused over this declaration. It stood so counter the way things are in the world. The rich and...
Elijah “came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die.” Also, Job spoke, “Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.” And “Jacob awaked out of his sleep,...
The sick and the poor – Jesus said they would be with us, always. And they remain with us to show us the heart of God. And sometimes we are sure to find ourselves among the sick and the poor and in need of help from a “priest,” from someone...
They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb! Oh the blood of Jesus — it will never lose it’s power. Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power, are you washed in the blood of the Lamb? Would you be free from your burden of sin? There is...
Talitha cumi These words from Jesus are found in the fifth chapter of Mark. This gospel records them in the Aramaic, the language common to the region where the Savior walked on earth. It was the language of the highways and the fields, the markets and the homes in that...
Three notable “darkness” events happened in Bible history. “And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt. And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness...
