Starting Right
Starting Right is a 5 minute Day Starter to help keep you motivated, encouraged, and focused throughout your day. DannyMac is a pastor, teacher, motivational speaker, husband, and father. His years of leading and training people have given him vast experience in helping individuals to accomplish change in their lives and meet their goals. He can help you set the course for your day by offering practical advice from God's Word in a positive and fun way. There is no better way to begin your day than by Starting Right with DannyMac.
Starting Right
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What if the most powerful thing you do today is ask for a hand—or offer one? We step into Luke 5 where a packed house, a paralyzed friend, and four relentless roof‑breakers collide with the authority and compassion of Jesus. The moment begins with teaching and tension, then jolts the room when Jesus speaks first to the heart: “Your sins are forgiven.” When critics push back, healing walks out the front door carrying a mat that once carried him, and the crowd can only say, “We’ve seen remarkable things today.”
You’ll walk away with a clear, human plan: ask for support before you snap, show up for a friend who feels blocked at the door, and expect grace to make a way where the room looks full. We highlight simple steps—prayer with presence, small acts of service, honest words that lift shame—that turn belief into movement. If you’re ready to see “remarkable things” in ordinary hours, press play, take a breath, and let courage borrow your voice or your shoulders.
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Good morning and welcome to Starting Right. I am Danny Mack, and I'm going to be here every Monday to Friday to help you get a great start to your day. So grab your cup of coffee, sit back and relax for the next five minutes as I help you start your day by starting right. Luke chapter 5 tells us another great story about someone who had a need and they had an encounter with Jesus. Jesus was teaching in a house, and gathered around him to hear him were the Pharisees and the scribes. Now these two groups, they were the experts on the law. They knew it inside out and upside down. They felt it was their job to make sure that everybody did exactly what the law said. And they were there basically to judge Jesus, to see if Jesus was following the law and listen to anything that they feel would be blasphemy. Well Jesus was teaching. But as he was teaching, the crowd grew and the house filled up, and soon there was no room in the house. In fact, it was spilling outside. Well, there was a man who was a paralytic. But he had four friends who knew that what he needed was to see Jesus. So they put him on a stretcher and they carried him to the house. But when they got there, the crowd was so big they couldn't get in. But they were determined to get their friend to Jesus. So they climbed up on the roof, they broke through the roof, and then they lowered their friend down in front of Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, Your sins are forgiven. Now immediately the scribes and the Pharisees they went ballistic. Who are you that you think you can forgive sins? Who are you to be able to do this? What is this? You're not allowed to do these things. They were just going nuts. And Jesus looked at them and said, What is easier to say to a man your sins are forgiven? Or to tell him to get up and walk. But you watch and let me prove to you who I am today. He turned to the man and said, I tell you, get up, take your mat, and go home. I love what verse 25 says. Immediately he stood up in front of them, took what he had been lying on, and went home praising God. He didn't even wait around. He got excited. He got up and he was going to go home and tell everybody that God had healed him. Everybody that was still there was amazed and gave praise to God, and they were filled with awe, and they said, We've seen some remarkable things today. Yeah, they sure did see some remarkable things. They saw Jesus teaching. They saw somebody break through the roof and lower a man down in front of Jesus, where Jesus forgave his sins, Jesus rebuked the Pharisees and the scribes, and then Jesus healed them. There's some powerful lessons for us in that story today. We all have times where we need friends to help us to get things right with Jesus. That's what we're here for. We're here to encourage one another. We're here to help carry one another when we can't handle it on our own. These four men knew that their friend needed Jesus. And they were going to make sure that despite their friend's weakness and inability that he got to Jesus. There's a relationship between Christians that I refer to as piggyback faith. I know that doesn't sound terribly theological, but let me explain it to you. We all have times in our lives where we have difficulty believing for God for something that we need to see happen. We start to doubt God, we start to doubt our relationship to Him, and we struggle with it. At those times when our faith is weak or it's suffering and we are starting to be overcome with the situations and the problems, it's at those times that we need our friends who have greater faith for us in that thing than we do. And they come and they surround us and they say, God is for you, God is with you, God will help you. Let us pray with you, let us help you, let us do what we can to help you get through this. Their faith lifts us up and carries us through to where we need to be and where we need to go. We piggyback on their faith. When we get piggybacked on someone else's faith, our faith gets stronger, and we can start to see God's work and do things. Sometimes we need to be the one who's carrying the piggyback. We're we're helping someone else who's struggling and is weak. And so we go to them and say, you know, I'm gonna believe for you in this. I know you're struggling, but I'm gonna believe with you and for you and know that God is gonna do something great and powerful for you in your life. I know he's going to do it. And we build up their faith because of our faith. Until we get to the place where Jesus reveals his plan and begins to move and answer and comfort and guide and strengthen and do whatever is needed in that person's life. Do you want to see some remarkable things today? If you know someone who is weary, who is tired, who is struggling, who is even maybe beginning to question their faith in God or their belief that God's working for them, they need you to come around them and to lift them up and to pray with them and support them. Maybe today you're the one who is that one who is struggling. Don't be afraid to ask your friends and your family, those believers around you who have strong faith to help carry you through your time of trial and difficulty. Let's see some remarkable things today. Have a great day, my friends. We'll talk again tomorrow. Thank you for listening today. And I invite you to join me Monday to Friday right here on Starting Right with Danny Mass.
