The love and compassion of God drove Paul to engage others “where they were.” Does God’s love and compassion drive you to engage others where they are? Not where we think they should be, but where they are. Do we only engage others when they see things our way or behave more like us? Do […]
Let us pray to our compassionate God who is near to us in Jesus Christ: God, we cry out to you in our weariness and in our sorrow and illness, as your Son called upon you in his suffering unto death. Strengthen us in the conviction that you are to be found in our pain […]
Let us pray that the knowledge of the Word of God fill the world: God our Father, you have spoken to us through your Word, Jesus Christ, that endures for all ages. He lived as he spoke, and so his message became flesh and blood and was faithful. May we speak in your name with […]
Instead of uncleanness contaminating him, Jesus overcame his uncleanness with the holiness of God: The Holy One of God (Mark 1:21-28). The unclean man was not unclean to Jesus. He was healed and brought into fellowship with God and others. This is a foretaste when all evil and uncleanness are conquered by God, and we […]
