My Seed Faith

John 4:1-26 Religion has become a power grab, or perhaps has temped people’s desire for power. Because in religion, specifically Christianity, God is the supreme judge. He makes the rules and the decisions. So being tied to God means that if you are in a position of moral leadership, your decisions and rules can be…

Mark 2:18 – 23 [18] Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. Some people came and asked Jesus, ‘How is it that John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees are fasting, but yours are not?’ [19] Jesus answered, ‘How can the guests of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? They cannot,…

Luke 23:44-49 [44] It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. [45] for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two.  [46] Jesus called out with a loud voice, ‘Father, into your hands I commit my spirit’ (Psalms 31:5). When…

God’s faithfulness In John 4:46-54 Jesus is traveling to Galilee. He had been preaching in synagogues about who God is and that he is the Son of God and that forgiveness for sins had come from God through him. Jesus had been preaching that the promises of God’s word were being fulfilled through him. Jesus had also…

In John 9:1-11 Jesus is with his disciples, and he sees someone else. Again, it is the Sabbath, but they are not in the temple, and the person he sees is a man who has been blind from birth (John 9:1).  When Jesus’ disciples see this man they assume that the reason he is blind is because…

In Luke 13:10-17 Jesus is in the synagogue teaching about who God is from scriptures and there is a woman there who Luke 13:11 says, “had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all.”  But “when Jesus saw her he called her forward and said to her, “woman…

“It is written man shall not live on bread alone.” (Matthew 4:4) Jesus is quoting when God was speaking through Moses to all the people of God that he had rescued from Egypt. God said to Moses that the commands that God gives, give life. God’s words bring blessings and increase and what God promises…

In Romans 7 Paul is explaining a spiritual truth about our nature and that by nature we are sinful.  Sin is anything that is in opposition to God and by our nature we are inclined to be in opposition to God. Our ways value things that humans do and by our nature we do what is good…

Jesus said, “your brother will rise again” to Martha whose brother, Lazarus, had died and had been buried for four days (John 11:23; 17). Recognizing that death is not final and her belief in life after death Martha says to Jesus, “I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day” (John…

Jesus teaches his disciples  In Matthew 18:1-5 Jesus’ disciples ask him “who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 18:1). They were asking who is the most deserving to be there and the most honored. Who is the most loved by God? Jesus, who sees beyond what people do or ask to the heart of…