The Gospel According to Mark ~ Interruption or Invitation

How do we handle interruptions in the plans we have in our lives? I know I don’t handle them very well at all. Jesus shows us a much better way on how to handle such things. Rather than seeing the interruptions to our plans and our life as interruptions we can see and accept them…

The Gospel According to Mark ~ Till, Prepare, Weed, and Grow

THINK: About how God has called them to grow into their crops of 30, 60, and 100 fold. What this looks like? How do they actually do it? What Jesus actually means and expects from us when we have the seed of the Gospel planted within good soil in our own lives? KNOW: Jesus is…

The Gospel According to Mark ~ Repent, Believe, & Go Fish

Everyone’s calling and charge in the name of Jesus is to repent, to believe, and then to go fish. The Gospel and the whole of the scripture story make this clear. We realize this fully as we begin our brand new series over the Gospel of Mark. THINK: Have I repented, have I believed, am…

Star Wars & Redemption

I recently submitted a devotional for a book being published in the near future called Thy Geekdom Come 2, and I felt a need to share it because I think it really speaks into the heart of some of the themes we have been exploring at our church.  It also reaches back to two messages…