Scripture on Sunday – Mark 14:17-21 January 19, 2025ScriptureJudas,Lent,Mark's Passion Narrative Mark’s Passion Narrative (4) Now that the evening has come, Jesus and his disciples gather for their meal, portrayed in Mark as a Passover meal. Already, we (the readers) have been warned...
Yeshua taught the written words of The Father to live by. That's the message from in His first public teaching known as the Sermon on the Mount. After repeating several blessings, Jesus laid it all out for everyone: "For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not a ...
Jesus told His disciples to “love your enemies” and to “do good to those who hate you” (Luke 6:27). As a Christian, I’ve often wrestled with the command to love my enemies. It does not come naturally or easily. Biblical love and worldly love are different. Worldly love is oft...
Positional righteousness, granted through faith in Jesus, defines a believer's status before God. Experiential righteousness involves practical living consistent with this status, influenced by spiritual growth. Some Christians, however, fall into carnality, neglecting this righteousness and facing divine ...
Jesus was “confirming the covenant” with the children of Israel during His ministry. With them he spent most of His time. His plea of the coming Kingdom of God was a message primarily to the Jews. He also told His disciples to do the same: ...
2 seen for forty days by His disciples before He ascended back to heaven (Acts 1:3). Then one-hundred twenty of His followers gathered in the Upper Room, in obedience to Jesus' command, waiting for the promised appearance of the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:4,5) Who came on the day of the...
We need a Savior.“She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins” Matthew 1:21). God loves usenough to rescue us at great cost to Himself.“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in ...
This oral teaching was accepted by Christians, just as they accepted the written teaching that came to them later. Jesus told his disciples: “He who hears you hears me, and he who rejects you rejects me” (Luke 10:16). The Church, in the persons of the apostles, was given the author...
“Now Jesus and His disciples went out to the towns of Caesarea Philippi; and on the road He asked His disciples, saying to them,“Who do men say that I am?”“ Mark 8:27 The disciples had just witnessed the healing of a blind man and had seen many other miracles of Jesus. They ...
). Luther, on the other hand, with bold self-reliance, created a purely subjective standard for the canonicity of the Scriptures in the character of their "teaching of Christ," and while he placed the Gospel and first Epistle of John, the Epistles of Paul o the Romans, Galatians, ...