The 260 Journey

Day 40Today’s Reading: Mark 12Today’s reading starts with a parable, a little story with a big meaning. Jesus tells it in nine verses but the actual story covers almost three thousand years. It is God telling His story from the beginning to ending with His Son coming to earth.As we read this passage together, remember that Mark 11:27 says Jesus is in the Jerusalem temple telling this story to...

Day 41Today’s Reading: Mark 13It seems that in Jesus’ ministry, when something significant was going to happen, He took with Him the same three guys: Peter, James, and John. It is as if their names roll off your tongue. Those names just sound right together.Those three men saw and heard things the other nine close disciples missed out on. When Jesus went to the Mount of Transfiguration, for...

Day 39Today’s Reading: Mark 11Sometime ago, Dave Hagler, who works as an umpire in a recreational baseball league, was pulled over for driving too fast in the snow in Boulder, Colorado. He tried to talk the officer out of giving him a ticket by telling him how worried he was about insurance and how he’s normally a very safe driver, and so on. The officer said that if he didn’t like receiving the...

Day 38Today’s Reading: Mark 10Today’s reading is a tough one. Jesus gets a test . . . a test about marriage and divorce.Before we dive into this chapter, listen to these poignant words from Augustine, which apply to what we’re studying today: “If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.”Now let’s read about Jesus’...

Day 37Today’s Reading: Mark 9If there was anything you ever wanted to tell people, it would be what happened to three disciples on a mountain in Mark 9:2-7. The conversation might go like this . . .“Guess who I saw today? Moses. Oh yeah, and Elijah. And guess whose voice I heard? Audible voice? God’s! Yep, God Himself. I know what He sounds like now.”These are the ultimate bragging rights. Seeing...

Day 36Today’s Reading: Mark 8Today’s reading opens with a familiar story. But if we examine it closely, we will notice something really puzzling and even humorous.We’ve all heard the saying, “Experience is the best teacher,” but it is simply not true. Experience is not the best teacher; it never has been and never will be. Maturity doesn’t always come with time. Sometimes age brings nothing more...

Day 35Today’s Reading: Mark 7In today’s reading, Jesus makes a statement to religious people that we have to put the spotlight on. Jesus speaks to the Pharisees and Scribes these cutting words about their relationship to the Bible, God’s Word. Let’s read it from The Passion Translation:“You abandon God’s commandments just to keep men’s rituals, such as ceremonially washing utensils, cups, and...

Day 34Today’s Reading: Mark 6No one would disagree that Jesus had all the potential to heal anyone, anywhere, anytime. Can you imagine having the person who could heal you, your child, your family, or your marriage right in your town and nothing happens?How is that possible?By limiting Jesus.We have only two times in the Gospels that Jesus was shocked and both have to deal with the issue of...

Day 33Today’s Reading: Mark 5Wow, today’s reading is filled with action, miracles, and healing. It’s nonstop from verse 1 to verse 43. Mark 5 starts with a town demoniac who lived in a graveyard and acts as the welcoming committee for Jesus and the disciples and ends in a house where a dead twelve-year-old girl’s body is laid out and a bunch of laughing people who think Jesus is out of His mind....

Day 32Today’s Reading: Mark 4I want to tell you two stories about storms, Jesus, and a bunch of guys (the twelve disciples) in a boat. Both storms had winds and fear. But their endings were different.We encounter the first storm in today’s reading. Let’s read about it together:On that day, when evening came, He said to them, “Let us go over to the other side.” Leaving the crowd, they took Him...