Jason Mull

In Mark 7 we meet a mother who, by every cultural standard of the day, was an outsider. She was a Gentile woman from Syrophoenicia—far removed from the religious circles of Israel. Yet when her daughter was suffering under demonic oppression, none of those labels mattered anymore. She simply needed Jesus. What stands out in this story is not just the miracle itself, but the clarity of this mother’s faith. Others saw barriers. She saw hope. Others may have seen her background, her status, or...

There are seasons in life where everything seems to happen at once. This season has felt a little like that for our family. Our oldest son is graduating high school and signing the lease on his college apartment. One chapter is closing while another begins. Our other son is in the middle of baseball season, which means 3–5 nights a week at the ball field cheering him on and soaking in moments that we know won’t last forever. Our girls are wrapping up another school year, growing faster than...

There’s a moment in Mark 9 that is both humbling and eye-opening. A father brings his hurting son to the disciples—men who had cast out demons before—and yet this time… nothing happens. No breakthrough. No healing. No power. “And they could not.” (Mark 9:18) That line sticks. Because it forces us to ask a hard question: What changed? It wasn’t that the problem was bigger. It wasn’t that the enemy was stronger. It was that somewhere along the way, the disciples began to rely on what they had...