by Jeanni Shepherd | Oct 19, 2021 | Stories of Jesus
Read Mark 4:35-41 We were tired, hot, ready to be done. Sweaty, grasping, hungry people had surrounded us all day long. The only thing greater than the incessant crowds was their relentless needs. Big needs. Small needs. Heartbreaking ones. It was all just so...
by Jeanni Shepherd | Oct 15, 2021 | Stories of Jesus
Read Mark 3:13-19 Jesus has just chosen His disciples and they’re not altogether sure what that means. But they are chosen and glad of it. Arriving at their resting place on the mountain, Jesus began to speak to the twelve: I have a job for you; one that will take you...
by Jeanni Shepherd | Oct 13, 2021 | Stories of Jesus
He climbed a mountain and invited those he wanted with him. They climbed together. He settled on twelve and designated them apostles. The plan was that they would be with him, and he would send them out to proclaim the Word and give them authority to banish demons....
by Jeanni Shepherd | Oct 8, 2021 | Stories of Jesus
Jesus went off with his disciples to the sea to get away. But a huge crowd from Galilee trailed after them—also from Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, across the Jordan, and around Tyre and Sidon—swarms of people who had heard the reports and had come to see for themselves....
by Jeanni Shepherd | Jan 22, 2021 | Simplicity
One thing I ask from the Lord, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple. –Psalm 27:4 NIV84 Contemplation is a close friend of simplicity. In it’s...
