Closer Day By Day

Bible Passage:  Mark 16 It’s the last chapter of Mark, our first book for the year 2011, and I must say that I’ve learnt much more about the teachings in this book once again. The Word of God never fails to teach us something new, does it? Anyway, this is the incident we’re all familiar [...]

Bible Passage: Mark 15 Biblereader touched on loving with truth in Mark 14’s encouragement. Today’s chapter continues on this course and further shows us how human emotions ebb and flow so easily when a group of people with a common intention (good or bad) is gathered together and one or more eloquent speakers are present. [...]

Bible Passage: Mark 14 Mark is the shortest gospel book in the Bible. Not surprising, he squeezes many important and dramatic accounts of the last few days of Jesus life in the flesh. If we were to read this chapter casually, we may miss out some key words and their significances to our Christian faith. [...]

“What will I be when I grow up?” “What will my future be like?” “Will I have a good life until the day I die?” These are some common question we would like to have answers to. Man is always curious about the unknown, which is why we see a lot of people delving into [...]

Our Lord used many parables to tell the people concerning the Kingdom of God, what was to come, and many mysteries regarding the life of man. But most of the time, the people did not understand what Jesus was speaking about. In today’s chapter, Jesus spoke a parable, and surprisingly the chief priests, the scribes and [...]

Nothing fancy for today’s chapter. Just a simple placing of the chapter in relation to other events, especially the crucifixion of Jesus, a breakdown of the events in the chapter, cross-references of these events to the other gospel books as well as some sharing concerning some of the events. A very basic structure but sometimes, [...]

Bible Passage: Mark 10 The chapters we read in Mark so far records the teachings of Jesus and the amazing miracles He performed. Here is my sharing on a couple of the teachings in today’s chapter. Giving up riches of the world for the riches in heaven Verse 17 onwards records a young man “running [...]

Reading through the Gospel according to Mark this time, my attention has been very much focused on the disciples. Why?  Well… I always wanted to be one of the 12 following Jesus around when He was ministering in the world and I thought that by putting myself in their shoes as we journey through the [...]

Bible Passage:  Mark 8 As JoyousConcerto had described yesterday, we have already seen so many miracles by Lord Jesus Christ in such a few chapters in one book in the Bibles. And again in today’s chapter, we see some more. And like in everything that He does or says, there is a meaning behind them [...]

Bible Passage:  Mark 7 Only 6 chapters into the book of Mark and already we’ve witnessed so many miracles! Jesus cleansing a leper, healing a paralyzed man, calming a storm, casting out demons, raising the dead, producing enough food to feed five thousand people, walking on the sea, and many more amazing things to come. [...]