by Esplanad Gospel Centre | Jul 18, 2025 | Weekly Devotions
But many who are first will be last, and the last first. – Mark 10:31 In the kingdom of God, things are not always what they seem. Jesus ends this teaching with a striking reversal that flips the world’s value system upside down. Those who appear to be...
by Esplanad Gospel Centre | Jul 17, 2025 | Weekly Devotions
…with persecutions… – Mark 10:30b Just as Jesus promises abundance in this life—brothers, sisters, homes, and lands—He inserts an unsettling phrase: “with persecutions.” The life of a disciple includes both blessing and hardship. It is easy to idealise the...
by Esplanad Gospel Centre | Jul 16, 2025 | Weekly Devotions
Receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands. -Mark 10:30a Jesus promises that whatever you give up for His sake, you will receive back a hundredfold, not only in heaven, but now in this time. What Jesus is...
by Esplanad Gospel Centre | Jul 15, 2025 | Weekly Devotions
Jesus said, ‘Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel…’ – Mark 10:29 Jesus answers Peter with divine assurance: no sacrifice made for His sake goes...
by Esplanad Gospel Centre | Jul 14, 2025 | Weekly Devotions
Peter began to say to him, ‘See, we have left everything and followed you. – Mark 10:28 Following Jesus is never casual. It is a total reorientation of life that may cost us deeply. Peter’s words reflect the raw honesty of a disciple who had truly left...
by Esplanad Gospel Centre | Jul 11, 2025 | Weekly Devotions
All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. – Luke 10:22 This verse shatters any illusion that we can find our way...
