Luke 10:38 shows us an event where Jesus and His disciples were invited into Martha’s home. As Jesus is speaking Mary, the younger sister, sits at His feet and listens intently to everything He is saying. Martha is distracted from Jesus because she is concerned about all the preparations that need to be made for […]
Last week, we saw how Jesus strongly disciplined or corrected His followers for wanting to harm the Samaritan people. Today, let’s contrast Jesus’ discipline with His acceptance of the Thief on the Cross.
There are several places where Jesus praises or compliments someone. Last week we saw Him compliment Nathaniel as someone in whom there was no “guile” or falseness. (John 1:47)
Matthew 8:5 Have you ever thought about Jesus “praising” people for things well done? Well, He does. A Roman Centurion (Army commander of 100 men) sends word to Jesus through some Jewish leaders asking Jesus to come heal his sick servant. In the course of things the Roman soldier demonstrates faith essentially saying, “It isn’t […]
Have you ever thought about Jesus being the “kind of person” that praises other people or compliments them? I never did. My image of Jesus and God were… broken. I only thought of God finding fault with people. Or telling them to “do more.” Until I ran into several passages that helped “develop” my image […]
Consider the first entry. When Jesus cleanses the temple and drives out the money changers, the animanls and the entire system of extortion that was operating in the temple – you find out that the people are being protected from a money making system setup by the Pharisees and true worship of God is restored […]
We are talking today about how the fierceness of Jesus in calming the raging storm on the Sea of Galilee also is the protection of Jesus for his friends in the boat. This is not a one time correlation.
This passage about Jesus holding and enjoying both the babies and the little children has many facets to it (Mark 10:13). Then again, we are talking about the very Character of the Almighty… there will be many dimensions to His infinite personhood!
Matthew 16:21 – Later in Jesus’ 3 ½ year public ministry He begins to tell the disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, suffer many things and be killed at the hands of the Priests, but also come back to life after 3 days. In this fascinating passage Peter actually “took [Jesus] aside and began […]
Jesus is this fascinating, unique human being who can confront the entire class of Pharisees and Priests, who can cleanse the entire Temple Worship area from all its abuses and restore true worship, who has the power to silence raging storms at sea, and who can master nature and change water into wine, … this […]