The Old and New Testaments are verbally inspired by God. They are His revelation to us, the infallible, authoritative guide to faith and life.In other words, the Bible says exactly what God wanted it to say. It tells us how to know God, has no errors, and teaches us how to live. When the Biblical authors wrote the Bible, they wrote precisely what God intended to say. The B...  Read More

Type your new text here. Today we are going to see how Jesus has power over illness and disease.Mark 5:21 Jesus got into the boat again and went back to the other side of the lake,So right after the story where Jesus calms the storm and casts out the demons, he gets back into a boat and heads to the other side. Why is that interesting?Because you get this huge narrative about them crossing the lak...  Read More

***For sensitive readers, some of the content in this devotional is graphic in nature.***Blood & Fire            If the wicked are ruling the nation, sin will be everywhere, but those who live right will win in the end. Proverbs 29:16            He was merely 16 years old when he ascended the throne in Rome. The year was AD 54, and his reign of terror would last 14 bloody years. His name was Nero ...  Read More

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Mark 5:1-5 So they arrived at the other side of the lake, in the region of the Gerasenes. When Jesus climbed out of the boat, a man possessed by an evil spirit came out from the tombs to meet him. 3 This man lived in the burial caves and could no longer be restrained, even with a chain. 4 Whenever he was put into chains and shackles—as he often was—he snapped the chains from his wrists and smashed...  Read More

Dangerous water is a theme that will come up in the Bible again and again. In fact, it appears within the first two sentences of the Bible. In the creation story one of the first “obstacles” God has to overcome to create life is those waters. So one of the first acts of creation is that God separates the waters so dry ground can appear.In creation God displays his mercy and grace by subduing the w...  Read More

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What does the Bible teach about fasting? Biblical fasting involves abstaining from eating (and/or drinking) for spiritual purposes. In the Old Testament, Israel celebrated certain annual fasts, the most prominent being the Day of Atonement. There were also occasional fasts tied to specific historical events, sometimes individual and sometimes corporate. Here are a few of the occasions for fasting: at a time of grief (I Sam. 31:13; Nehemiah 1:4), at a time of repentance (I Sam 7:6; I Kings 21:27), as an expression of humility (Ezra 8:21; Psalm 69:10), and as an expression of a need for God’s guidance and help. What all of these fasts share in common is that they were an expression of dependence on God. Several New Testament passages give us insight about fasting.   Read More

Fasting is voluntarily going without food—or some other regularly enjoyed gift from God—for spiritual purposes. In short, we fast from food so we can feast on God. Fasting is not our attempt to manipulate God to do what we want Him to do. Fasting does not bring God into alignment with our desires but brings our desires into alignment with God’s.   Read More

This week at Crossover we continued talking about the book of Mark. We looked at the parables of Mark 4. The parables revealed Jesus’ message to those who really listened but concealed it from those who did not.Jesus’ parables were not just moral stories but were about the nature of the kingdom of God.Mark 4: 30-31- No matter how small the start, God’s Kingdom grows into something big.Mark 4:26-29...  Read More

We have been going through our series on the book of Mark. Mark is one of the 4 gospels, one of the 4 stories of Jesus’ life in the New Testament. While Mark wasn’t one of the 12 apostles, he most likely wrote down the events of Jesus’ life as told to him by Peter.From Mark we have already seen how:Jesus is the Messiah or “chosen one”Jesus has the power to healThe Pharisees started in love with Go...  Read More

This week at Crossover we continued talking about the book of Mark. We looked at the stories of Jesus calling the disciples and discussed some background information. Some of the disciples seem to have multiple names. One explanation is that it was common for people to have a Jewish name and a Greek name.Jesus was a RabbiIt’s possible that Jesus specifically selected students other Rabbis rejected...  Read More