A rich and respectable synagogue ruler; an outcast and destitute woman… they could not have been more different. But at the feet of Jesus, they became equals: equally needy, equally blessed.
Read more...A terrifying message: the Day of the LORD is near. How can you prepare for it and what will be the final outcome? As relevant today as it was for the original hearers.
Read more...Jairus begged Jesus to come to his house and save his dying daughter. The situation was urgent but delay followed delay. How did Jairus feel as time ran out? We can only imagine. Desperation? Panic? And when the news came that his daughter had died, devastation. Yet Jesus told him to carry on trusting. How can we trust Jesus when all our hopes fail and it seems too late for anything to change?
Read more...A summons to hear God’s Word and respond. Those who ignore it face disaster. Those who trust and obey God’s commands will be kept through the disaster and can look forward to the coming of the King.
Read more...The man of the Gerasenes had been wrecked by the power of demons, yet Jesus restored him. Demons are still wrecking the lives of countless people. And Jesus is still defeating them and restoring broken damaged human beings to the image of God.
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