Let's face it...life sometimes is hard and can just suck. When we are faced with life's challenges we can be discouraged, get tired, and become weary. What we need is motivation, encouragement, and a helping hand that keeps us going. That's the idea of GRINDIT! We find our strength to endure when we focus on Jesus. God's own Son wasn't exempt from life's challenges and He didn't do anything to deserve what he went through! And yet He did...willingly, therefore we find our hope in Him.
Jesus does something he hasn't done up until this point: He heals the same man twice. He touches his eyes and the man sees trees; Jesus touches him again and he sees clearly. Why did Jesus do this he…
Jesus has fed a crowd of over 5,000 with just 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish. The disciples helped with this miracle, they were a part of it when they hd 12 basketfuls remaining yet, in a very short ti…
A Gentile woman hears that Jesus is in town and she rushes to find him. When she does, she prostrates herself before him and asks him to cast a demon out of her little girl. Jesus calls her a dog and…
Traditions...something the Pharisees had major problems with. They had studied God's law, interpreted God's law, and made their interpretations more binding than God's law! They had become traditions…
Jesus feeds the 5,00, more like 10,000 including women and children, with 2 fish and 5 loaves of bread. He had questioned his disciples on how they were going to feed this big crowd before he perform…
John the Baptizer loses his head because Herodias wanted to show how powerful she is! Herod put John in prison hoping to appease his wife but it wasn't good enough for her. She was working behind the…
As a follower of Jesus, we claim to be his hands and his feet? What does that mean? Am I really being his hands and feet? We tackle this deep subject in this podcast as we look at the disciples as Je…
The enemy has many tools in his arsenal to keep us from serving God and three of the greatest are: Fear, discouragement, and rejection. Nobody likes to be rejected but what we learn in Mark 6 is even…
Jairus’ 12 year old daughter was sick and was dying. He seeks out Jesus and asks him to come to his house and lay hands on her to heal her. In other words, Jesus was his hope. As they were going to J…
Jesus and his disciples show up in the town of Gadarene and a man that is possessed with 2,000 demons meet him as he gets out of the boat. This man was naked, he cut himself with stones, and he lived…
Jesus continues to use parables to describe what the kingdom of God is like. In this podcast, we discuss the Parable of the Growing Seed and the Mustard Seed. It's all about the seed...or the word of…
Jesus uses parables to help drive a point home and in Mark 4, he uses several of these parables to teach the people what the kingdom of God is like. Think about it...they've never been to heaven so t…
Jesus was accused by the religious leaders of being possessed by Satan. Jesus was hot and he was hurt by their accusations and he let them know it by telling them that all sin and blasphemy will be f…
Jesus returns the synagogue in Capernaum where the last time he was there, he cast a demon out and his fame spread like a wildfire. This time, there is a man with a withered hand there and the Pharis…
Have you ever gotten in trouble for wearing a hat to the dinner table? Did someone smack it off your head and say something like this, “We don’t wear hats at the dinner table!” Why not? Who said? Wha…
Jesus has traveled back to Capernaum and is staying at someone’s home. People hear that he is back in town and the crowd begins to gather in so much that they are lined up outside wanting to see him.…
After leaving the synagogue, Jesus and his new disciples go to Peter and Andrew’s house to hang out. While there, people get wind of what has taken place at the synagogue and they bring people who ar…
Jesus and his disciples go to church, or their version of it anyway and a man shows up while Jesus is teaching and he is demon possessed. The demon acknowledges Jesus and calls him the Holy One of Go…
Jesus gives an invitation to some brothers to leave everything behind and follow him. Peter and Andrew, James and John, have no idea if Jesus is the Messiah or not at this point. They have heard John…
Why do people feel as if nothing bad should come there way? It is said that we are either about to go through a storm, we are going through a storm, or the storm has passed. It's a nonending cycle th…