I continue with the podcast series called “The Way Of The Cross The Way Of The Heart” walking with Jesus as He travels toward the cross. In “Episode 3” I am in Mark 9:38-50 where the disciple are trying to defect from dealing with their pride and insecurity by accusing someone that is not a part of their group of casting out demons. Then Jesus cautions them on what their our doing and warning them it is serious business in following Him.
Mark 9:38-50
38 John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us.” 39 But Jesus said, “Do not stop him, for no one who does a mighty work in my name will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me. 40 For the one who is not against us is for us. 41 For truly, I say to you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ will by no means lose his reward. 42 “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea. 43 And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire. 45And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell. 47 And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell, 48 where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’ 49 For everyone will be salted with fire. 50 Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, how will you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”
Luke 4:18-19
18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives
I continue with the podcast series called “The Way Of The Cross The Way Of The Heart” walking with Jesus as He travels toward the cross. In “Episode 2”, I am in Mark 9:30-37 where the disciples are arguing over which of them is the greatest as they walk with Jesus toward Jerusalem. As they are engrossed in this argument they are missing what God is doing.
Mark 9:30-37
30 They went on from there and passed through Galilee. And he did not want anyone to know, 31 for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him. And when he is killed, after three days he will rise.” 32 But they did not understand the saying and were afraid to ask him. 33 And they came to Capernaum. And when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you discussing on the way?”34 But they kept silent, for on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest. 35 And he sat down and called the twelve. And he said to them, “If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.” 36 And he took a child and put him in the midst of them, and taking him in his arms, he said to them, 37 “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.”
1 John 4:10
In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
I started a new podcast series called “The Way Of The Cross The Way Of The Heart”. I will be discussing different portions of scripture of when Jesus is traveling toward the cross where the disciples are challenged in how they see Jesus and what it means to follow Him not just externally but inwardly from the heart. In Episode 1, I am in Mark 8:27-35 where Jesus says to Peter, “get behind me Satan” and then calls the disciples and the crowd to deny themselves and take up their cross and follow him.
Mark 8:27-35
27 And Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” 28 And they told him, “John the Baptist; and others say, Elijah; and others, one of the prophets.” 29 And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Christ.” 30 And he strictly charged them to tell no one about him. 31 And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again. 32 And he said this plainly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. 33 But turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.” 34 And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 35 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it.
Isaiah 55:1-3a
1 “Come, everyone who thirsts,
come to the waters;
and he who has no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price.
2 Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread,
In this podcast, “Are You The One”, I look at the beginning of Matthew chapter 11 where John the Baptist while in prison sends messenger to Jesus to ask him, “Are you the one who is to come or shall we look for another?”. Many of us can identify as we struggle with overwhelming circumstances and we find ourselves needing answer we can’t answer. At the end of Matthew chapter eleven Jesus gives us the answers we all need in an invite.
In this podcast, “Who Is The Inn Keeper“, Kenny shares from the story of Jesus’ birth in Luke 2:4-7. He shares about the sovereignty of God, and how God is orchestrating circumstance and timing, setting things in motion, and intersecting people and places as God is fulfilling His prophetic promises of old. This is God’s story.
