What happened to the Pharisees? When they initially formed, they had the best of intentions. They wanted to live according to godly principles, separating themselves from the wickedness of the world. There’s everything right with that.

In Mark’s record of the feeding of the five thousand, we read that Jesus “commanded them all to sit down in groups on the green grass.” (Mark 6:39).

In this section we will see how important it is for anyone wishing to control the world to hijack the earth’s money supply.

In this series, we suggest that you pull back the curtain and look at who is behind the idols of the modern age. Who is “dangling the carrot” (of drugs, television or money)?

In this section, we hope to show the influence of actual occult idol-pushers on politics for the purpose of creating utopia.

Jeremiah 31 is a pivotal chapter not only in the book itself but the entire Bible.

This thought is a counterpoint to yesterday’s where we looked at spiritual relationships being more important than biological.

At the end of today’s reading in Mark 3, we learn that Jesus’ “mother and his brothers came, and standing outside they sent to him and called him” (v31), but his response was, “Here are my mother and my brothers! For whoever does the will of God, he is my brother and sister and mother.” (v34).

In today’s reading in Mark 2, we read about the call of one of Jesus’ disciples, Matthew, the tax collector.

Have you ever wondered why Psalm 91 came up in Jesus’ wilderness temptations?

Paul’s ending words in his epistle to the Romans sum up everything he said in one simple phrase: “the obedience of faith” (Rom. 16:26). He began the epistle in the same way when he said, “through [Christ] we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations” (Rom. 1:5).

In Romans 12, the apostle Paul uses a very intriguing word in his introduction to the practical matters related to God’s righteousness.