The opening of a chapter-by-chapter series through the Gospel of Mark, beginning with Mark 1, with extensive background on John Mark as the author writing from Peter's perspective and how the New Testament gospels were transmitted.
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A guest speaker on the Sunday after Easter preaches from 1 Peter 1:3-9 on the living hope of the resurrection and faith refined through trials, recalling Peter's denial and restoration in John 21 as background to the letter's author.
Listen & readAn Easter Sunday message on the resurrection of Jesus, emphasizing that he truly died and rose bodily—flesh and bone, body and spirit—and that his resurrection was not for himself but to gather and restore his people.
Listen & readA Palm Sunday message on Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem from Luke 19, tracing his journey from Galilee through the raising of Lazarus and Jericho as a growing crowd accompanies him toward Passover.
Listen & readA late-Lent message on Romans 8:1-11, focusing on "there is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus," and on repentance as a joyful opportunity for God's redemption to reach new places.
Listen & readA Lenten message on the healing of the man born blind in John 9, addressing the disciples' question of whose sin caused his blindness and Jesus' answer that it was not sin but an occasion for God's works to be displayed.
Listen & readA third-Sunday-of-Lent message on Romans 5:1—"since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God"—unpacking Paul's argument from Abraham and reframing justification as how we make sense of and justify our existence before God.
Listen & readA second-Sunday-of-Lent message on John 3:1-17 and Nicodemus coming to Jesus by night, exploring Jesus' teaching on being born again and reflecting on the temptation to earn God's approval through accomplishment.
Listen & readA first-Sunday-of-Lent message on the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness (Matthew 4), framing Jesus as the fulfillment of Israel who resists the temptation to live off what he can make for himself, trusting instead that what God gives is better.
Listen & readAn Ash Wednesday message on Matthew 19, where Jesus welcomes the little children and then encounters the rich young man asking what he must do to have eternal life, illustrated by a story of subsistence farmers in Malawi and dependence on God.
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