Sermons

Mark’s Gospel hinges on Peter’s confession about Jesus: "You are the Messiah" (8:29). Jesus has dealt with the attacking blindness of the Pharisees. Now he addresses the supportive blindness of…

Who are you becoming? What in your life is shaping you in one direction or another? Do all things happen for a reason? Mark’s Gospel is a story of change,…

Jesus has been working in Gentile territory.  He heals the Syrophoenician woman near Tyre and Sidon, touches the deaf and mute man in Decapolis, and now feeds four thousand apparently…

Jesus is still in Gentile territory. He takes a big route, heading north first to Sidon from Tyre and then down to Decapolis, east of the Sea of Galilee (cf.…

As we enter into another year of our Lord, 2014, the evangelical church in the United States is in a different position than it has ever been. We are increasingly…

The incarnation is the greatest miracle ever. Pantheistic and polytheistic religions have incarnations and reincarnations, but only Christianity maintains the Creator/creature distinction and yet affirms the eternal God taking on…

The church taken as a whole has said a lot about Mary. If some have said too much, Protestants perhaps have said too little. What we need to do is…

When you picture the kingdom of God, the gathered family, what does it look like? Who is there? Jesus just declared all foods are clean (7:19), and while this is…

Jesus continues the quiet revolution that is the kingdom of God. Having exposed the idolatrous religious traditions of the Pharisees (vv1-13), he now describes true defilement. But he doesn’t just…

Happy Advent!  As a new church in a new season, we want to consider what we are doing. Jesus attacks traditionalism, elevating our traditions to the level of God’s commandments.…