Richard Rogers finished up his series on Becoming Students of Miracles in Mark 8:14–21, the disciples panic over having only one loaf of bread, revealing that their thinking is still shaped by the wrong kind of “leaven”—the influences that shape how we think. Jesus warns them about the leaven of Herod, a mindset that excludes God and relies on human self-sufficiency, and the leaven of the Pharisees, a religious mindset that acknowledges God in form but denies His power. Both produce spiritual blindness. Even after witnessing Jesus multiply food for thousands, the disciples still interpret their situation through lack rather than through the abundance they had just experienced. Jesus confronts their hardened thinking, urging them to remember the miracles and let those encounters reshape their minds. With Him, one loaf is never just one loaf—He is inviting them to see through the lens of the Kingdom, where His presence changes what is possible.

When we become students of the miraculous around us it transforms us by renewing our minds in the Kingdom mindset.