Mark 8:11-26 “Notice what you notice.” Three small items today… I had never noticed that this “leaven” conversation between Jesus and His disciples took place in the boat as they were traveling from the west side of the Sea of Galilee, headed to Bethsaida. The only other occasion that I can recall Jesus speaking with …
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June 3 / Matthew 16:1-12
Matthew 16:1-12 “Notice what you notice.” I probably noticed it before – Jesus mentioned the color of the sky; in both cases the sky is red, but in the evening the red sky calls for good weather while in the morning the red sky calls for stormy weather. Small point, but interesting… And they began …
June 2 / Mark 8:1-10
Mark 8:1-10 “Notice what you notice.” Both Matthew and Mark comment that the crowd has been with Jesus for three days. That in itself is compelling! Three days in the wilderness. It’s not like Billy Graham three-day revivals here in the USA, where that people come to hear him all three days, then go home …
June 2019 Readings
Date Reading(s) Verses 01-Jun Matt. 15:32-39 8 02-Jun Mark 8:1-10 10 03-Jun Matt. 16:1-12 12 04-Jun Mark 8:11-26 16 05-Jun Matt. 16:13-28 16 06-Jun Mark 8:27-9:1 13 07-Jun Luke 9:18-27 10 08-Jun Matt. 17:1-13 13 09-Jun Mark 9:2-13 12 10-Jun Luke 9:28-36 9 11-Jun Matt. 17:14-23 10 12-Jun Mark 9:14-32 19 13-Jun Luke 9:37-45 9 …
June 1 / Matt. 15:32-39
Matthew 15:32-39 “Notice what you notice.” Much is made of the similarities and differences between today’s “Feeding of the 4,000” and our earlier “Feeding of the 5,000”. Some scholars say there was only one feeding; others hold true to what we have in Scripture. Let me offer four major differences: Finally, later (Matthew 16:9-10) Jesus …
May 31 / Mark 7:24-37
Mark 7:24-37 “Notice what you notice.” And He entered a house and did not want anyone to know, yet He could not be hidden. (v. 24b) Yesterday both Debbie and I asked why Jesus would stray so far away from Galilee, to Tyre and Sidon – Gentile territory. My sense was that He was just …
May 30 / Matt. 15:21-31
Matthew 15:21-31 “Notice what you notice.” Our byline, “notice what you notice” has tripped me up sometimes. I find myself looking for items in these passages that I had not seen before, which is a good thing as we read these passages more intensely, but that byline should not rule out commenting on the old …
May 29 / Mark 7:14-23
Mark 7:14-23 “Notice what you notice.” Sometimes passages are so familiar to us that it’s hard to find anything new, especially when we are reading two or three or four writers’ accounts of the same event. That was the case today – but I did pick up on a small item. Going back to yesterday’s …
May 28 / Mark 7:1-13
Mark 7:1-13 “Notice what you notice.” Once again, Mark with his details…, spending two verses (3 and 4) highlighting the marketplace as a source of uncleanness – much more vivid, especially if you’ve visited Middle Eastern marketplaces!! Jesus’ focus on tradition in this passage calls to mind our Anglican history of “Scripture, tradition, and reason”, …
May 27 / Matt. 15:1-20
Matthew 15:1-50 “Notice what you notice.” This schedule of readings has really opened my eyes to Jesus’ Galilean ministry compared to His time in Jerusalem. For example, today’s reading begins with Pharisees and Scribes coming to Galilee from Jerusalem specifically to monitor and test Jesus. That’s about a 70-80 mile trip. Yet these emissaries are …