Be With Me: 7 Minutes of Biblical Wonder

4 friends from another town carry a paralytic to Capernaum to get to Jesus.  It is too crowded to get close, so they REMOVED THE ROOF. Of a house. Of a house THEY DIDN'T OWN.  Of a house who they did…

Jesus chose PRAYER when He had the world to Himself.  He could have chosen anything.  Why choose prayer?  Because the tasks ahead for His day made the prayer part NECESSARY.  He got desolate, so He c…

What would you do if you had the world to yourself?  More specifically, what DO YOU DO when you have the world to yourself?  Almost everybody answers this question everyday, when they get out of bed.

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Everybody gets healed in Capernaum.  Everybody.  The doctors get put out of business there.  This fulfills a prophesy in Isaiah: He took our illnesses and bore our diseases.  Apparently, these are ph…

The people of Capernaum, at least initially, have a pretty good effort towards having a spiritual encounter.  They are first AMAZED, then they WONDER, then THEY THINK for a while, then the LISTEN, th…

Jesus comes to SAVE.  But not to save everybody.  We find today a whole group of beings that have missed the salvation train.  They are the unclean spirits, the demons.

They are volitional beings whos…

Everybody is amazed at Jesus' AUTHORITY in His teaching.  That is, expounding the truths of the SCRIPTURES.  It all makes perfect sense, because He is the ultimate AUTHOR of all those truths, and HE …

I will make you FISHERS of men.  That is, you are going to HUNT them and I am going to help.

What does it take to be a good fisherman?  First, Know you are doing it.  This is a universal call to all. …

Repentance is a lot of things.  It is ancient.  It is universal.  It is for salvation.  It is necessary.  It is inconvenient.  It is hard.  It is grievous.  It is all over the Bible.

What struck me to…

What would your city give to have an Amazon Fulfillment Center call your city home?  Tens of millions of dollars is the answer.  What would your city give to have Jesus come and live there? Be carefu…

If you have ever heard something about God and felt RAGE or WRATH well up within you, you are in good company.  You are not the first in the company of most of humanity.  There is all kinds of stuff …

The Hometown folks of Jesus are filled with WRATH and want to throw Him off of a cliff because of...wait for it...a story about a WIDOW.

Unfortunately, she is not one of us.  She demonstrates God's ac…

By the end of this encounter with Jesus, His hometown crowd wanted to throw Him off of a cliff to kill Him.  It starts all sunny, but this goes bad in a hurry. Really bad.

Jesus has been elsewhere in …

There are PAIN POINTS of this life that cause us to give Jesus a try.  For the man with a child near death it was his hardest thing.

Jesus challenges him by asking for BELIEF before the rainbow; Faith…

Jesus tells the disciples to wake up and uses food as a marker for it.  He wants them to open their eyes to what is happening on an evangelical plane.  People are ready to be brought in the kingdom. …

The fact that Jesus reveals Himself to the Samaritan Woman should give everyone of us some comfort.  She wasn't even seeking God.  Even worse, she thought she already possessed Him; already knew Him.…

We think maybe that 'we'll never find God.'  He's like a needle in a haystack.  He's unfindable.  He's unknowable.  I can never triangulate with the unknowable.

That is not the God of the Bible.  Surp…

In the context of offering a relationship with Himself (living water and right worship) Jesus interrupts the flow of the conversation and basically says, "Let's talk about your sex life!" He uses the…