The Secret Revealed   ( Mark 8: 27-33)

by | Mar 14, 2021 | Sermon Text

When I was a young father on a warm summer’s night, I called for my twin boys, who were about a year-old, to come out on the front porch. I wanted to show them a huge toad that I had spied on our front steps. Ironically, the boys were wearing night-shirts that...

The Power of Unbelief   (Mark 6: 1-6 )

by | Mar 7, 2021 | Sermon Text

Jesus had come home. He had been on a triumphant journey around the surrounding countryside, granting sight to the blind, healing the sick, cleansing the lepers, raising the paralytics, and challenging religious authorities as he preached penetrating messages and...

Soils of the Soul   (Mark 4: 1-9)

by | Feb 21, 2021 | Sermon Text

Listen! Jesus says to his hearers. Listen! There once was a sower who went out to sow. However, this sower either had an impossibly high regard for the potency of these seeds, or he didn’t seem to care about what he was doing. This sower seems more like Mr. Magoo than...

To Nurture is our Nature   ( Mark 2: 1-12)

by | Feb 14, 2021 | Sermon Text

The great German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer once wrote, “The physical presence of other Christians is a source of incomparable joy and strength to the believer.” Not long after writing these words, he was arrested by the Nazi Gestapo and discovered amidst great...