December 7, 2025
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Reading along with us in our Lenten readings from “The Life of Jesus”? Here’s today’s reading:
Advent 2025 – Day 7 in the Book: “The Life of Jesus“
The Beginning of Jesus’ Public Life
Read Sections 2.13 through 2.18 (pages 28-31)
This book is an account of Jesus’ life and teachings told through in chronological order from the four Gospels to create one continuous story.
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I love the grass roots ministry of Jesus. Like the Samaritans said, we belived in you because of what she said and then we heard you and believed even more. Talk about the work Jesus was doing was traveling making people want to know more and see these things for themselves. far before radio, tv, and cell phones His ministry was bringing crowds and growing. Too bad His own hometown only saw Him for what they remember not what He really was, their Savior!
Reading these passages shows how easy and hungry people are when they’re not all wrapped up in religious cob webs. Just thirsty for water that eternally quenches. Had a great lunch today with my niece from Florida. She came to church. Clapping to music and listening intently. So easy to tell her the simple gospel and the love of God for her through Jesus. She was smiling. She took home life of Jesus and a done book.
Praise the Lord! That’s encouraging to hear, Mark.
Psalm 43; Jeremiah 20; The Life of Jesus 2.13-2.18
Although we eat physical food, may we also feel fed by doing the work God gives and commit ourselves to discover the work that God planned for us to do from eternity past (Ephesians 2:10). And isn’t it interesting that Jesus gets a better reception in Smaria and other places than He does in Nazareth. But they must have thought they knew who Jesus was and therefore were not open to the greater truth about Him. May we always look at Jesus with fresh eyes rather than relying on things that we presume about Him that are not based in Scripture. And yet what a powerful, transformational message Jesus brought that would bring hope in despair and light to the darkness. And what better way for Jesus to show who He is then to declare that someone is healed from a distance and then they are healed at the very moment that Jesus said that they were. He is amazing!
Advent 2025 – Day 7
Jesus reaches the Samaritans through the Samaritan woman. I appreciate the contextual comment on Jesus conversation with the Samaritan woman that Jews don’t associate with Samaritans. Made me think of the presuppositions of people today, and the intentional sowing of division.
May we all strive to be like Jesus when he says “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.” People are welcoming Jesus and begging him to stay, to speak to them, to heal the sick. They know he is a man of God who can do anything. First, they believed because they were told, then they believed because they could see him personally working in their lives. That is how we come to believe as well. We hear, we believe, we experience firsthand how God works in our lives. “And we know that he really is the one who will save the world.”