By: Brian Harris
Proverbs 22:20 reads, “I have written thirty sayings for you, filled with advice and knowledge.”
By: Brian Harris
Proverbs 22:20 reads, “I have written thirty sayings for you, filled with advice and knowledge.”
By: Brian Harris
It’s an often overlooked statement that is strangely counter-cultural: “You will be king over Israel, and I will be second to you.”
Then some stood up and gave this false testimony against him: “We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple made with human hands and in three days will build another, not made with hands.’ “Yet even then their testimony did not agree. (Mark 14:58–59, NIV)
By: Brian Harris
I get to preach on Judas Iscariot this week. Yup – I drew the short straw.
Now the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread were only two days away, and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were scheming to arrest Jesus secretly and kill him.“But not during the festival,” they said, “or the people may riot.” (Mark 13:1–2, NIV)
But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. Be on guard! Be alert! You do not know when that time will come. It’s like a man going away: He leaves his house and puts his servants in charge, each with their assigned task, and tells the one at the door to keep watch. (Mark 12:33–34, NIV)
By: Brian Harris
Psalm 90:10 makes the sobering claim that “The length of our days is seventy years.”
“Truly I tell you, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her.” (Mark 14:9, NIV)
By: Brian Harris
It was a slightly unexpected and somewhat abrupt question, but afterwards its wisdom struck me.
By: Andrew Laird
In my job I meet up with a lot of people, and so whenever I go to a meeting I always go prepared…with a book.