Mark 9:38-50 September 30, 2012 Our Gospel reading today teaches many lessons, including a lesson about the power and importance of Jesus’ name. People were casting out demons by using Jesus’ name, even though they weren’t direct followers of his. …
Text: Mark 9:14-29 Dear friends in Christ, I’ve never understood why some people think Christianity is simplistic. “It’s for people who want easy answers,” they’ll say. Really? Have these people actually read the Christian scriptures? I don’t think they have. …
Text: Mark 7:31-37 Theme: How closed are we? Lesson: Our hearts need to be opened to God. Jesus can do this. Dear friends in Christ: I was a little worried about placing this Sunday’s theme on our roadside church sign. I imagined …
Date: July 1, 2012 Text: Mark 5:21-43 Theme: Responding to seekers Lesson: People approach us as they did Jesus. We extend help and care as we lovingly and boldly proclaim Christ crucified Biblical scholars will tell us that these verses from Mark’s Gospel …
Grace, mercy and peace to you from God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus. Amen. Today in our church, nine young teenagers will be confirmed. They have finished a two-year course of study in which we examined the …
Date: June 10, 2012 Text: Mark 3:20-35 Theme: Jesus talks family Lesson: Family is a blessing, especially the Family of God Of the many themes this text covers, I’d like us to focus today on Jesus’ teaching about family. All of us are …
Text: 1 Corinthians 10:12,13 Theme: “Be careful that you don’t fall” Grace, mercy and peace be to you from God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus. Amen. “Be careful that you do not fall.” That’s what it says in …