CONCORD

I love the story found in Luke 5:4-11. Jesus comes on the scene ask to use Peter’s boat as a platform to teach. When He is finished Jesus tells Peter to push out into the deep, where he has just spent all night fishing and not catching anything, and to begin again to fish. I can imagine the natural emotions of this moment. Peter had been up all-night fishing. He was now cleaning up. He was tired. He had caught nothing. In one of Peter’s better moments he responds, “Master, we

The inner life describes what the Bible calls the heart. This is the place of decision, the seat of our emotions, and the place where God speaks to us. This is the area that is in most need of development after we are saved. Jesus says, “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.” (Luke 6:45). What is found on the i

Mark 5:19. “Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how He has had mercy on you.” The story found in Mark 5 is an amazing transformational story. An individual living in the graveyard, possessed by demons encounters Jesus and has his life changed forever. The town had tried to put chains on him so they could manage or control him, but that did not work. When we read about him, he is outside of town, an outcast. Jesus enters the scene and

He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.” I began this week memorizing this verse. The only way I know how to memorize scripture is to repeat it over and over. I often times say it out loud. I have done that enough this week that if I close my eyes, I can almost hear Jesus saying these words to His disciples and them being in awe of His words. They would ha