 The Gospel of MarkThe Gospel of Mark is the story of a King who carries a cross. Jesus comes as the King of God's Kingdom, but instead of raising an army and battling with a sword, he gathers some disciples and carries a cross. The power of this King was used to heal, forgive, comfort and counsel. For all who met him they either bowed down to his sovereignty or angrily plotted to kill him. Nobody was neutral about Jesus. In this study we will examine the life of Jesus and then our response to him. |
Sermons in this series
April 08, 2012
The story of Easter, Christ's resurrection from the dead, brings us an ultimate challenge -- a challenge for our head, our heart, and our hands. The challenge for our head is in accepting that it really did happen. This was not just one of many other messianic movements, because no other messianic movement ever claimed that their messiah rose from the dead. The challenge for our heart is in understanding the grace and forgiveness that is now available for everyone through Christ's resurrection; first to his unfaithful disciples, and now to us. The challenge for the hands is in the command to go. Don't fear, but go in the power of the resurrection of to unveil the Kingdom of God in today’s world. Please click on the "Text: Slideshow" button to view a Prezi presentation of this sermon.
April 08, 2012
Sunrise Service
April 01, 2012
Who is this King Jesus anyway? What is he really all about? Those are the questions his followers were certainly asking themselves on Palm Sunday and the days that followed. They see Jesus riding into Jerusalem and being hailed as a king, but Jesus himself has chosen to ride meekly on a donkey. Is this King a lion or a lamb? Then as Jesus enters the temple, he goes wild, disrupting the market place which is run by the Jews and claiming the temple as a house of prayer for all nations. And as if that wasn't enough, Jesus goes out from there and curses a fig tree for not bearing fruit. To make sense of this we have to understand that Jesus is both the Lion and the Lamb. He is both our King and our Savior. Please click on the "Text: Slideshow" button to view a Prezi presentation of this sermon.
March 25, 2012
How we face death tells a lot about us and our relationship with Jesus. In Mark 14 we see Jesus facing death and we see His agony as He prayed in the garden. But why would Jesus be in such agony? Was He, the Son of God, afraid of death? Or could it be that he knew that He was about to drink the full cup of God's wrath for all the sins of the whole world, and that He was about to, of His own will, step into hell and be forsaken by God? And why would he do this of His own will? Again we can only be struck by Jesus' love, a revolutionary love that turns everything upside down and compels us to respond. Please click on the "Text: Slideshow" button to view a Prezi presentation of this sermon.
March 18, 2012
Jesus claimed that "the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." This means that Jesus had come to earth with the specific purpose of dying to purchase the freedom of his people who are imprisoned in sin. We can object to the primitiveness of such a notion, yet at the same time we cannot deny the observation that all life-changing love is in fact a substitutionary sacrifice. This message takes a closer look at the truth of the substitutionary sacrifice of Jesus, and then explores two results of such a sacrifice on how we live our lives, first with deep humility, and then with profound gratitude. Please click on the "Text: Slideshow" button to view a Prezi presentation of this sermon.
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