Greater Things

Luke 6:20 And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God. Jesus was a teacher of paradoxes, a teacher of parables, and of unseen and unknown truths.… Continue reading

Luke 5:5 And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net. Peter and his comrades had just had a rough night. They… Continue reading

Luke 4:19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. The fascinating thing about the coming of Christ was its timeliness. The precision of the time of His advent was unparalleled by any other. For you see! The fullness of… Continue reading

Luke 3:2 “…the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.” The way in which things took place in the Bible is often the way they take place to the common man. After all, the… Continue reading

Luke 2:51 And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart. Here we have a most interesting story—the story of Christ as a twelve… Continue reading

Luke 1:20 “…because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.⁠” The first chapter of the Gospel according to Luke is one of the most powerful in all the canon of Scripture. It speaks of those… Continue reading

Mark 16:15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. What a commission here is given to His disciples! Jesus had just gloriously risen again, and appeared first to the… Continue reading

Mark 15:34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? The darkest moment of the life of Christ was… Continue reading

Mark 13:34 For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch. Jesus here gives… Continue reading

Mark 12:44 For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living. There is a precious widow in this story that the Lord notices and… Continue reading