Psalm: 70 Meditation Mark: Jesus begins with a series of rhetorical questions. I tell people there are two kinds of questions I don’t answer: rhetorical and stupid. Jesus goes on to say, in essence, don’t be stingy with money, gifts, kindness, etc. The line about the seed growing is very similar to “one sows, another …
Tag: Questions
Saturday, September 18
Psalms: 127,128,134 Meditation Job: Job is facing his day of reckoning. The LORD asks him rather pointed, if rhetorical, questions. All of Job’s questions remain unanswered, principally the question “Why?” For some reason, and I don’t think it’s presumptuous to ask, we think God owes us an explanation for His behavior. The LORD reminds Job, …
Jesus Fixes Broken People
Craft Ideas Read Mark 1:21-34 The reading has a lot of different broken people. What do we do with broken things? Have you ever had something that broke? What happened? Usually, if it is inexpensive we throw it away - if worth a lot we try to fix it. Right? Do we see Jesus throwing people away or fixing them? How …