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Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Thomas Long

... preacher. They made what surely must be one of the great understatements of all time. What happened, according to the Gospel of Mark, was that Jesus showed up at the synagogue on the Sabbath and preached an unusually powerful sermon. Rather than leaving the ... and quoting fifteen other rabbis, each quoting someone else, Jesus simply looked them in the eye and preached from the heart. Mark tells us that the congregation was "astonished," but that’s not the understatement. It was the congregation who made the ...

702. In Control

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... are trying to set God’s timetable for him, and, like others before them, they are going to be wrong. Jesus makes that clear enough in Mark 13:32 "But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father." ... Father has fixed by his own authority." It is true that, just as the leafing of the fig tree signals the approach of summer (Mark 13:24), the signs of the time seem to indicate that his Coming is near. But Barclay’s words are a needed reminder: "There ...

703. Is Your Religion Second-Hand?

Job 42:1-6

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... 9:53). Two of Christ’s friends, James and John, became so angry with the Samaritans’ inhospitality that they wanted to call fire down from heaven to destroy that place. Maybe that is why Christ nicknamed those two men "the Sons of Thunder" (Mark 3:17). This Samaritan village did not welcome Christ. Because of that refusal, their knowledge of Christ remained a second-hand thing. There were other Samaritans, however, who did welcome Christ. They had heard about him from an infamous woman of their village ...

704. Even The Demons Believe!

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

... a child you know. Sometimes we describe an ornery child as "a little demon." But in the Bible, the word demon is never used that lightly. It is a word that is always used seriously and fearfully to describe one of the forces of evil, an unclean spirit. Saint Mark records for us the story of one demon who filled a father’s life with agony because of the way he possessed the man’s son. Shortly after the Transfiguration of our Lord, a man came to Jesus with a pitiful request. "Teacher, I brought my son to ...

705. Jarius' Daughter

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Brett Blair

... of our children would have responded in the same way. He would be bored stiff with what was going on in the house and he would go outside to shoot basketball. She would quickly leave the adults and run out to talk with her friends. As for the crowd, however, Mark tells us simply: “And they were filled with amazement.” The words of Jesus to that child are the same words of Jesus to the church today. “I say to you, get up!” All you who have been saved from the death of sin, I say to you arise. Why is ...

706. The Healing of the Man with the Withered Hand

Mark 2:23-3:6

Sermon

James W. Moore

... common practice was to not help people on the Sabbath Day. Blinded by the Law, we can miss the chance to love. Blinded by the common practice, we miss the common sense. III. FINALLY, BLINDED BY OUR SYSTEMS, WE MISS THE SAVIOR. We see it graphically in Mark 3. The Son of God walked into their lives and they tried to kill Him. He tried to teach them love and they would not listen. They had their ways, they had their systems, and Jesus was upsetting their applecart. So they plotted against Him. Some years ...

707. Preparing For A Royal Visit

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... raised to this. Actually, the letter X was used repeatedly by early Christians as a coded sign for Christ. In Greek, the letter X is the first letter of the word Christ. In the early days when Christianity was an outlawed religion, Christians would often take a stick and mark the letter X in the dirt alongside the road as they walked. Anyone who saw it knew what it meant: "A Christian has passed this way." You and I do not need to scrawl Xs on sidewalks now. There is no law against being a Christian. But I ...

708. Written In Our Hearts

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

King Duncan

... ," he said, "You told me that if I trust God, He will take care of me. Mama, thank you." (5) Do you have that kind of trust? Is your life undergirded with that kind of support? Do you have that kind of peace within? That's the mark of maturity in the Christian faith. I was reading a humorous account about a young couple who were trying to decide what kind of child birth method to use. Like most couples having children, nowadays, they were investigating the benefits and shortcomings of natural childbirth. A ...

709. How Do You See It Now?

Haggai 2:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... . In fact he NEVER looks at the goalposts. The quarterback has to tell him if a kick is successful. "But how do you aim," Madden once asked him, "if you don't look at the goalposts?" "I just look at the hash marks," said Wersching. "They tell me all I have to know." Madden goes on to note that Wersching is right. The hash marks, those chalked lines about 23 yards inside each sideline on a football field are 18 1/2 feet apart, the same width as the goalposts. In a sense, the goalposts come up out of the hash ...

710. On Panicking Close to Shore

John 6:16-24

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... . He thought of “Messiah” not as one who would make others suffer, but as one who would suffer on behalf of others. And so Jesus slipped away to the hills to be alone. The disciples then got into their boat and continued their journey on the water. Mark’s Gospel says that Jesus told them to do so. It seems that it was His intention to walk around the north end of the lake and join them when they docked at Capernaum. This would take Jesus through the “deserted places of Bethsaida” - an area where ...

711. Family Reunion

Mark 3:31-35

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... late addition to the faith, coming during the Byzantine period when the church began to develop its anti-sexual bias. Jesus had a family. But let’s face it; Jesus didn’t get along with his family very well. We have a hint of it in the third chapter of Mark where his family and friends come to get him and take him home, believing that He is “beside himself.” We can imagine the pain it must have caused Him - to have to make a choice between the tug of his family and the tug of His extended family, the ...

712. The Lord Has Need

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... , crushed under crushing circumstances in life. The dispossessed, the despised, the rejected. What was it that Jesus once said about little children? “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.” (Mark 9:37) Did you get that? The great God Almighty, King of Kings and Lord of Lords, Creator and Ruler and Sustainer of the universe, awaits our welcoming arms. He will not force us or coerce us, but comes to us, wrapped in swaddling ...

713. Jesus and the IRS

Mark 12:13-17

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... of all, or Christ is not Lord at all.” Halford Luccock in the Interpreter’s Bible, says: “These words of Jesus’...have been as badly twisted as any he ever uttered. Many interpreters seem to have taken their principles of exegesis from Mark Twain: ‘Get the facts first; then you can distort them as you wish.’ Generations have done just that. The words have been distorted into a divine injunction to support any government, no matter how unjust, vicious, and oppressive. They have been cited even ...

714. Looks Like We're in for Stormy Weather

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... out of the valley onto the lake. Suddenly the late afternoon tranquillity turned into violent torment. The waves and wind struck the little boat without mercy, and that little part of the world became tossed and turned by every force of nature. This Gospel lesson from Mark is saying to us in the 20th Century that life is like a boat ride; and we are the passengers! Life is like a peaceful lake that becomes, without warning, turbulent, and there is neither mercy from it nor control over it. At times it seems ...

715. We Are Christ's - That Is Enough

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Paul E. Flesner

... quickly silenced the demons at about the time they started to identify him as the Son of God! I find that rather curious to say the least! You'd think that Jesus would have welcomed such an identification of his power and authority! Yet, when seen in light of Mark's entire Gospel, we discover that Jesus did not want to become known as a "Mr. Fixit." He did not want people to find room in their hearts for him only because they thought he was a miracle-worker. He did not want people to follow him only because ...

716. Remember Your Baptism

Romans 6:1-14, Colossians 2:6-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... which he or she has been nurtured. So what happens in infant baptism is not primarily an act of the parents, or of the child, but of the church and even more so of Christ in the church. Certainly there is value in the stamp of God’s property being marked on the child in the laying on of hands with water, and that declaration on the part of the church and the parents and the family that the child is offered publicly to God, having been born to be born-again. Pronounced by right a citizen of the kingdom of ...

717. The Game Is For A Team

Colossians 4:7-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... church must be a fellowship of reconciliation. III The next person at whom we look is Justus. We have time to mention only one I think this verse is the only time his name appears in the New Testament., But there he is along with the famous Luke and Mark. Let's call him the unknown disciple. We know absolutely nothing about him. The amazing thing is that he is mentioned at all. Maybe he had been of some special help to Paul. Maybe his faithfulness to Christ, in spite of the rejection of the hostile Jews in ...

718. The Gift Of Sleep

Psalm 127:1-5

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... You know that it's going to be all right. You know that you are going to be all right. "That's called "entering the zone". Mark concluded, "I read about it and I thought, that's like the 23rd Psalm: Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I ... Whatever it is I have to do, whatever it is life requires of me I'm going to do it -- it's going to be all right." (Mark Trotter, "Finding 'The Zone'", April 16, 1989). Now to be sure we don't live in "the zone" all the time. But we can live in it ...

719. Remember Your Baptism

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

720. Generic Christianity Is Not Enough

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , “the way, the truth, and the life.” There are those who would say that it’s too exclusive to claim Jesus as the way. There are all sorts of ways, they say. Did you see the TV segment about the orphanage in Albania? A young man, Mark Nyberg, is the director. Burning, looting, and wild tirades of killing forced our government to evacuate American citizens from Albania -- but Nyberg would not leave. He moved into the orphanage and is staying with the children. He is there, he says, out of his love for ...

721. Children in the Arms of a Loving God

Mark 10:13-16

Sermon

Michael Milton

... me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.” And he took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands on them (Mark 10:13-16). Suffer the Little Children We have all heard about the infamous novel where a mystery was supposedly encrypted in the paintings of Leonardo di Vinci. Well, today, we come to a Scripture that has inspired many works of art. In fact, the “Suffer the Little ...

722. When Jesus Comes to Church

Mark 11:27-33

Sermon

Michael Milton

... people. They had the Word of God before them; yet, they ignored the convicting ministry of Jesus. They saw His miracles. They heard the testimony of John. They came face-to-face with God in their lives, but they spurned His grace. …So they left him and went away (Mark 12:12). Jesus comes, not to condemn you, but to save you and to expose the things that do condemn you. What would you do with this parable? They went away, but …Blessed are all who take refuge in him (Psalm 2:12 ). I once was with someone ...

723. When Fisherman do Strange Things

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... the way you are going to be until you become that. It is "at hand." That means, start moving toward it. I learned something the other day in preparing for this sermon, that the term "good news," which also means "gospel," in Roman times, when the Gospel of Mark was written, had a political meaning.2 Caesar announced to the world upon his ascension to the throne to be king of the Roman Empire, that it would inaugurate a whole era of peace in the world. He called that news, that peace would come to the world ...

724. Look Ma, No Hands

Mark 6:7-13

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... that you need them all. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. That's what he taught them. That's the Sermon on the Mount. That's instruction for disciples on how to make the journey. Now in Mark he's going to see if they can do it. So he sends them out on a journey, two by two, saying, "take nothing with you," to see if you can do it. You see, it's not so much about possessions, it's about faith. It's about what ...

725. The Day Life Increased

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... Marys. They recognize him. They fall down and worship him. He says to them, "Tell my brethren to go to Galilee, and I will meet them there." Now that's it. That's the detail. "Tell my brethren." That is unique to Matthew. That is like some distinct mark on an antique, it makes it unique and more valuable. Look at it again. Jesus is supposed to say, "Go tell my disciples." That is what you expect. That is what Jesus says everyplace else, in every other gospel. Throughout Matthew he refers to his disciples as ...

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