by Ray Viola | Mar 19, 2024 | Mark
Mark 4:26-27 And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. Jesus likens the growth in the kingdom of God to a farmer who plants...
by Ray Viola | Feb 29, 2024 | Devotionals, Mark
Proverbs 4:23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. In the foundational parable of the sower taught by Jesus in Mark chapter 4, we discover that hearing God’s Word and bearing fruit is relative to the stewardship of our hearts. It is...
by Ray Viola | Feb 24, 2024 | Devotionals, Mark
As soon as He was alone, His followers, along with the twelve, began asking Him about the parables. And He was saying to them, “To you has been given the mystery of the kingdom of God, but those who are outside get everything in parables, so that while seeing, they...
by Ray Viola | Feb 10, 2024 | Mark
Luke 6:12,13 And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God. And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles. It is quite a...
by Ray Viola | Nov 22, 2023 | Mark
Mark 2:23, 24 And it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on the sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn. And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful? Jesus Christ...
by Ray Viola | Nov 15, 2023 | Devotionals, Mark
Mark 2:18 And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and they come and say unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not? Describing the new birth to the church at Corinth, the apostle Paul wrote,...