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  TODAY'S SCRIPTURE Mark 15 (NIV)   TODAY'S DEVOTIONAL Wake Up Call Mark 15:1-2-  Very early in the morning, the chief priests, with the elders, the teachers of the law and the whole Sanhedrin, made their plans. So they bound Jesus, led him away and handed him over to Pilate. “Are you the king of the Jews?” asked Pilate. “You have said so,” Jesus replied. Come walk with Jesus—day by day, chapter by chapter—through the Gospels.  This daily journey is shaped in Scripture, rooted in community, and alive with the Spirit’s work in us. Let’s wake up to His love together.  Led by J.D. Walt (of Seedbed).   The Temple in Jerusalem of Jesus' day had an outer court where Gentiles were permitted. This would have been the area from which Jesus threw out the moneychangers, who were taking advantage of the poor and making a mockery of the Temple's purpose. The next area was a smaller courtyard Gentiles were not permitted to enter for Jewish women and children. There ...

    TODAY'S SCRIPTURE Mark 8 (ESV)   TODAY'S DEVOTIONAL Wake Up Call Mark 8:22-25-  And they came to Bethsaida. And some people brought to him a blind  man and begged him to touch him. And he took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village, and when he had spit on his eyes and laid his hands on him, he asked him, “Do you see anything?” And he looked up and said, “I see people, but they look like trees, walking.” Then Jesus laid his hands on his eyes again; and he opened his eyes, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly. Come walk with Jesus—day by day, chapter by chapter—through the Gospels.  This daily journey is shaped in Scripture, rooted in community, and alive with the Spirit’s work in us. Let’s wake up to His love together.  Led by J.D. Walt (of Seedbed).   In the gospels we see Jesus healing people in many unique ways- from a distance, by touching a person, by proclaiming forgiveness of sins, ...

  TODAY'S SCRIPTURE Mark 1 (ESV)   TODAY'S DEVOTIONAL Wake Up Call Mark 1:14–15 (ESV)-  Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of God, and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.” Come walk with Jesus—day by day, chapter by chapter—through the Gospels.  This daily journey is shaped in Scripture, rooted in community, and alive with the Spirit’s work in us. Let’s wake up to His love together.  Led by J.D. Walt (of Seedbed).   Each Gospel begins in unique ways as God speaks through human vessels. Matthew and Luke, for instance, give us more on the birth of Jesus while John speaks of the pre-existent Christ. Mark gets right down to business: "The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God." Mark is the briefest and most straight forward of the Gospels. For those of us old enough to remember the old show "Dragnet" Mark is the Jack Webb character Joe Fri...

  TODAY'S SCRIPTURE Matthew 22 (NIV)   TODAY'S DEVOTIONAL Wake Up Call Matthew 22:34-40-  But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees,  they gathered together. And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.” Come walk with Jesus—day by day, chapter by chapter—through the Gospels.  This daily journey is shaped in Scripture, rooted in community, and alive with the Spirit’s work in us. Let’s wake up to His love together.  Led by J.D. Walt (of Seedbed).   Jesus tells an intense parable about what the Kingdom of God is like. There were people wh...