Sometimes we forget that God cares more about our relationship with Him more than we do. We can start relating to God out of habit and lose our closeness with Him. So He sent Malachi the prophet to the nation of Israel and us today with the same message.

God allows Joseph to endure betrayal, hardships and rejection, but he becomes the savior of the known world. Sound familiar? No matter what Joseph goes through Scripture tells us that God was with him.

God begins to fulfill His promise of providing a Messiah by revealing Himself to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob... and to begin building His nation that will bring forth Jesus.

In the beginning - God. It's His story about His great love for you and what He is willing to do to get you back with Him.

Mark 6:53-56 pointedly tells us that Jesus is our healer... and this message reveals that He not only can physically heal us, but Jesus heals our emotions, relationships, our spirit, our attitude and our thinking.

People think they know who Jesus is and people think they know what the Gospel is... but maybe people have become so familiar with both that they really can't see either. In Mark 6:1-6 Jesus is rejected because His hometown thinks they know Him... but they don't.... and the same thing is still happening today.

We can put our trust in Jesus; He will never disappoint. In Mark 5:21-43 Jesus heals (raises) two polar opposites (a somebody and a nobody) and then heals one indirectly and one directly. We all fit somewhere in-between these extremes which gives us hope.

In Mark 4, Jesus is fast asleep in a boat when a storm nearly kills everyone on board. We all have storms in our lives that try to take us out... how are we to handle them without drowning?