Sermons

Mark 6:1-6a. Religion inevitably runs into trouble when rules, regulations, and rituals replace a vibrant living relationship with God based on faithfulness.

Mark 5:21-43. Into every life a number of storms will come. The question is not whether they will come, but how we navigate them when they do.

Mark 5:1-20 presents a troubling but recognizable picture of the human condition. The dilemma of this condition is only resolved when I submit to the Divine power that was embodied in Jesus. 

Mark 4:35-41. We spend our lives getting from one side to the other side. How we travel across the divides we face has a great impact on what we discover when we make it to the other side.

Mark 4:21-34. Christian faith is often presented as a make-work project. But Jesus seemed to have a different, more gentle vision.

Mark 4:10-20. We all live at different times in different kinds of soil. Some soils are more conducive to prospering than others.

Mark 4:1-9. In this parable it is tempting to pay too much attention to the soil and miss the power in the seed. If we begin by focusing on the seed, we may hear this parable in a fresh way.

Mark 3:20-29. Mark 3:29 is one of the most challenging verses in the Bible. How are we to understand a “sin that cannot be forgiven”? A careful reading of the whole passage in its context may suggest a surprising conclusion.

Mark 3:7-19. This season of Christmas is a time when, for most people, something deep within them stirs even if just for a moment. This is the call of the Divine in our hearts, summoning us to the place of love that Jesus embodied.

Mark 3:1-6