Archive for August, 2008
Our local ministry
Thursday, August 28th, 2008From the Word: Listen and walk (from Psalm 81)
“O that My people would listen to Me, that Israel would walk in My ways! I would quickly subdue their enemies and turn My hand against their adversaries…I would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.” [...]
Global
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008From the Word : More than before ( from Mark 6:30-44)
”They all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up twelve full baskets of the broken pieces, and also of the fish”. (Mark 6:42-43).
A good reminder that when Jesus meets needs, He does it with “amazing grace”! From five loaves and two fish, 5,000 men were fed, [...]
National
Thursday, August 14th, 2008From the Word : A guilty conscience ( read Mark 6:14-29)
”But when Herod heard of it, he kept saying, ‘John, whom I beheaded, has arisen’”. (Mark 6:16).
Interesting to see what came to Herod’s mind when he heard about Jesus. His guilty conscience could not release him from his unjust and brutal treatment of John the Baptist. Yet [...]
Philadelphia metro
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008From the Word : “Whom He wanted” (read Mark 3:7 - 19)
”And He went up on the mountain and summoned those whom He Himself wanted, and they came to Him.” - Mark 3:13 (NASB).
Jesus called to Himself those whom He wanted as His companions and co-laborers. And then it says, “…they came…”. What was it [...]