(PRT)Pastor Rick’s Translation: 1 The beginning of the Good News of Jesus Christ, God’s Son: 2 Just as it has been written in Isaiah the prophet, “Look, I send my messenger ahead of you who will thoroughly prepare the way for you. 3 He will be the voice crying in the desert places, “Prepare the…
Pastor Rick’s Study Notes: First Impressions: The Jerusalem team of legal experts had passed judgment on Jesus. He was a threat to their traditions and their power. When power is threatened, power becomes an adversary. When traditions are threatened, traditions become the default. Either way, truth is drowned out. Apparently, the verdict from the legal…
Pastor Rick’s Study Notes: Pastor Rick’s Translation – Mark 6:1-13 (PRT) v.1 Then Jesus left Capernaum and arrived at his hometown, accompanied by his disciples. v. 2 And when the Sabbath came around, he took the initiative to teach in the synagogue; and many, as they were hearing him, were astonished, and wondering aloud about…
Pastor Rick’s Study Notes: (PRT – Pastor Rick’s Translation) vv. 7-8 And Jesus withdrew to the sea along with his disciples, but a great throng joined him from Galilee as well as from Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, all the way from the other side of the Jordan and as far away as Tyre and Sidon; many…
How often do you and I get a chance to do life with someone from another world? This week’s outreach project with the All Nations Cafe reminded me that many of us don’t often get opportunities to sit down, eye-to-eye, with people not like us. We served and had lunch with Columbians, Ecuadorians, Romanians and…
