Blessings and Persecutions Mark 10:17–31 Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time . . . with persecutions. Mark 10:29–30 Christ’s words to…
The question is no longer simply, do we believe the story? The question is: Will we live like people who have been passed over by grace?
Jesus’s Compassion Mark 8:1–10 I have compassion on the crowd. Mark 8:2 The story of Jesus feeding the four thousand contains a lesson for anyone who feels that God has forgotten him or her. Do you feel that way? If you do, notice Jesus, out of compassion, had initiated the matter of feeding the people….
Whatever the people were expecting, none of them would have guessed that God was going to provide a lamb of his own.
The Great Commission Matthew 28:16–20 Go . . . and make disciples of all nations. Matthew 28:19 Notice that the word all occurs four times in these verses. 1. Jesus possesses all authority. This is no weak authority, because the one who spoke it is no weak master. He is the risen Lord, and “all authority in…
Timothy Mountfort reviews Matthew Rhodes’ “Persecution in Missions: A Practical Theology” (Crossway, 2026).
Dayspring Camp and Conference Center is a non-profit that hosts short term missions teams to serve Fairmont and its surrounding communities.
See the Grave Matthew 28:1–10 Come, see the place where he lay. Matthew 28:6 Think for a minute about why we should see the grave and how we may profit by it. First, we see the grave that we might understand the condescension of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ is not just…
