Recently the story of Jesus' healing of Blind Bartimaeus really moved and challenged me. It's not only because Jesus healed Bartimaeus' blindness, but the way in which He showed love and mercy to him. Checkout the scripture in Mark 10:46-52: And they came to Jericho....

John 21:5 New International Version (NIV) 5 He called out to them, “Friends, haven’t you any fish?” “No,” they answered. This is one of my favorite portions of Scripture in the Bible. The place in which Jesus reinstated Peter is one of my favorite places to see when I...

James 4:13-17 (NASB) 'Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.” Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a...

In what do you have the most trust on any given day?  We may be traveling down the road and just assume that everyone around us will obey the traffic laws, say on their side of the road and not come barreling through a stop sign or red light.  Surely you have...

Growing up school was pretty easy for me. Most subjects came naturally, and I could breeze through with minimal effort. Math, however, was a massive exception. No matter how much I tried math always seemed completely incompressible (especially when random letters and...

Mark 16:15 New International Version (NIV) 15 He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. This past weekend we celebrated Easter, the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. According to the Bible, Jesus stayed with his disciples another 40...