Jesus's Motive Verse 45 in Mark 10 reveals the motive of Jesus’s ministry and backs it with a basis for our salvation. A “ransom” is defined as “a payment demanded or paid for the release of a prisoner.” Jesus demanded that His people be set free from the bondage of...

John 4 Be the Friend You Want to Have In Jesus’s time, it was customary for servants to wash the feet of homeowners and their guests. But Jesus chose to serve His closest friends and show them what love and real friendship looked like. We can treat our friends the...

The Attitude of Christ It’s humbling to know that our Creator took on the world not only by coming in human flesh, but He experienced an earthly life so He could save us from sin. He didn’t have to humbly accept the calling to serve His people, but He chose...

Praise to the Lord! Praise: the expression of approval or admiration of someone or something. ‘Praise’ is mentioned 43 times in Psalm 146-150. Even that is not enough praise for the One who sacrificed it all for us to have eternal life. I believe the only way we can humanly...

Valley to Mountain Worship is going through the valleys to get to the mountain top. Jesus understood the greuling pain and mockery He would have to endure to free His people from eternal separation from the Father. He knew He would have to walk, drag and hang through this unimaginable...

Worship Wherever Where we worship does not matter as much as whom we worship. We can go to church every Sunday and ‘worship’ God, but if on Monday-Saturday we continue to worship worldly pleasures, then Sundays become meaningless. We are called to serve as disciples of Christ 24/7. Sunday should...

Worldly Temptations Knowing and obeying the Word of God can help us fight temptation. One avenue of worship is putting no other gods before our Savior. We have the ability to fight off temptations of this world with the Word of God. It is our responsibility to know Scripture within...

God in Flesh One of the many things that makes God so praise worthy is that He put on flesh by choice. He endured the life sucking separation from the Father so that we may be able to enjoy the same eternal peace. What Jesus taught and did is who...

Lost Worship We come across two interesting incidents in this passage that coincide. One, the cursing of the fig tree and two, the clearing of the temple. The temple was an intended place of worship, but people neglected the practice of true worship, leaving the temple empty. Conjunctly, the fig...

The Lord's Prayer What is your motivation in prayer? Is it to sound eloquent or to have a genuine conversation with God? Jesus gives His disciples a model of prayer: Our Father in Heaven…  May Your Kingdom come…  May Your Will be done…  Give us today… Forgive our sins… Rescue...