Jesus shows compassion

I love this event in Jesus’ life! There was a leprous man and he probably hadn’t been touched for years, even 10 or 20 years or more. Sometimes Jesus heals with a “word” but this time Jesus comes near the man and heals him by “touching” him. Wow, can you image how wonderful it was […]

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What Was On Jesus’ Face?

  This week’s post has a direct connection to last week where we looked at how Jesus motivates Peter relative to his immanent denial and abandonment of Jesus before the Romans and the Pharisees. We found that even though Jesus knows how Peter will fail, Jesus builds Peter up by doing 2 things for Peter […]

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The Father’s Praise for Jesus

As I conclude this series on Jesus’ praise for imperfect people I thought it would be good to visit the two times that God, the Father, praises Jesus! Mark 1:9-11 paints the scene of Jesus coming to John, His cousin, to be baptized. John says that he didn’t know that Jesus was the Messiah until […]

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