Trust

Relating to Each Other in Trust and Integrity

Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. (Matthew 7:1–2)

Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted…

Confidence through the Lord

I have confidence in you through the Lord… (Galatians 5:10 KJV)

Our confidence in one another is not based on what is in us, but rather it rests upon God and trusts in His work of redemption in us.

This Same Jesus

This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven. (Acts 1:11b)

Jesus is the indispensable person of Christianity. Christianity is not so much an ethic, philosophy, or morality as it is an encounter with Jesus…

Put Your Hope in God

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God. (Psalm 43:5)

The need in every age is for people to trust in God, and to live each minute in that trust. In the Greek grammar…

Like a Little Child

Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it. (Mark 10:15)

Some think that progress in all things is achieved by increasing the knowledge, sophistication, and complication of the matter, whatever it is. Wisdom knows…

And as Many as Touched Him

And as many as touched him were made well. (Mark 6:56b)

There is to Mark’s gospel an element that enjoins us to reach out to Jesus, for all those who do find in him more than they could have hoped for.

Unbelief in Nazareth

And Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household.” And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. And he marveled because of their unbelief. (Mark 6:4–6)

Even the Wind and the Sea

And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?” (Mark 4:41)

The division of the physical realm and the human realm is apparent. “The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s…

Be Still and Know

He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”

Psalm 46:10

The words “Be still!” touch us each in different ways.

Soft Hearts

Today, if you hear His voice: Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, as in the day of trial in the wilderness, when your fathers tried Me; they tried Me, though they saw My work. for forty years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “It is a people who go astray in their hearts, and they…