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Mark 1:29-34

Sermon

Paul E. Flesner

I'd like to begin with what might seem a rather strange question. "Do you really believe in Jesus?" Before you answer that with an indignant, "Of course I do," I want you to think for a moment about what your own mental image of Jesus is like. Try to picture his face. Do you see it as hard, coarse, and set with wrinkles? Or do you see it as smooth, fine-featured, and more on the soft side? Try to...

2. Altar Your Prayers

Mark 1:29-37

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

Lord, out of the silence, we come into Your presence. Truly help us to set aside all thoughts and distractions. Help us to lay them at the Altar as we give this offering of time to hear Your word for our lives. Help us to put our worries and concerns about all of life into Your hands for safe keeping as we worship. In Your hands they don't look quite so big, so urgent, so burdensome. Help us t...

3. The Need for A Community of Healing

Mark 1:29-34

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

A friend of mine came home alive. For many long weeks there was real fear he would not come home at all. A week or so prior to Thanksgiving he entered the hospital with an emergency illness. After a few days, however, it became apparent something far more serious was wrong. Doctors were baffled. More specialists were called in who eventually diagnosed his malady -- a serious one indeed. Appropriat...

4. Sandbox First, Soapbox Second

Mark 1:29-34, Mark 1:35-39

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

This sermon has a very simple, but very difficult, message: Faith is a social practice, but one that requires solitude. Genesis 2:18 reads: “It is not good for man to be alone.” Daniel 10:8 reads: “I was left alone, and saw the great vision.” Sometimes society, sometimes solitude. Sometimes it is not good to be alone. Sometimes we need to be left alone to see what God has for us to see. The mos...

5. Seeking Christ

Mark 1:29-34

Sermon

King Duncan

Sometime back Dr. Phil Berry took a picture outside a roadside convenience store. The store was on the Texas border on the highway leading to Colorado. It was one of those portable advertising signs with flashing lights along the top meant to lure in passersby. At the top of the sign it read, “Last chance Lotto Texas, clean restrooms, snacks.” Then, at the bottom of the sign, almost like an after...

6. Are You Plugged In?

Mark 1:29-39

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

Sue Buchanan tells the story about her father, a pastor in a small Southern town. It seems his granddaughter, Dana, for whatever reason, was afraid of the siren. In this small town, a siren went off every day at noon. It was installed generations ago in order to let factory workers know it was time to go home for lunch. Every time little Dana visited Grandpa, the siren scared her silly. So, Grandp...

7. The Healing Touch

Mark 1:29-39

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David E. Leininger

What is a dinner guest to do? Jesus and his friends had been invited to a post-synagogue meal at the home of Simon Peter. They arrived to find that Peter's mother-in-law was laid up with a fever. Jesus went in to see her, took her hand, and voilà, the fever left. In fact, she felt good enough to get out of bed and serve them dinner. Wow! Of course, she was not the only one. Over and over, the New...

8. A Whole City at The Door

Mark 1:29-39

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Robert J. Elder

One of my all-time favorite church magazine cartoons pictures a physician in his office, speaking with his bookkeeper. The subject of their conversation is a patient's bill, which apparently had been in the accounts receivable file for a long, long time. The bookkeeper says to the doctor, "He says that since you told him his recovery was a miracle, he sent his check to the church." Our passage fr...

9. Jesus Heals Body and Soul

Mark 1:29-34

Sermon

King Duncan

Two of our greatest presidents were born in February, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. One of the things I love about Lincoln was his sense of humor. Abe Lincoln laughed at himself, and especially at his appearance. He was reportedly a very plain looking man. I particularly like one story that Lincoln told on himself. He said, “Sometimes I feel like the ugly man who met an old woman travel...

10. The Demanding Crowd

Mark 1:29-34, Mark 1:35-39

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John A. Stroman

And the whole city was gathered around the door. -- Mark 1:33 Jesus was mobbed by the crowds. Because he taught with authority and healed those possessed of an unclean or evil spirit, the crowds sought him out. Everyone with an ailment joined the demanding and pressing mob of people. The text tells us that the entire city was at his doorstep. The crowds came with their brokenness and said, "Fix m...

11. Catch the Fever

Mark 1:29-34

Sermon

James Caldwell III

This is the season of at least two kinds of fever going around. The first is an elevated body temperature. The kind that accompanies an illness. After all, this is the flu season. And with the flu comes fever. But a fever is a symptom of many diseases. All of us have had it at one time or another. Frequently, fevers are caused by bacterial infections, sometimes causing a fever to be extremely hi...

12. The Healing Of Simon's Mother-in-Law

Mark 1:29-34

Sermon

James W. Moore

Her name is Jackie Greer. She is without question one of the most amazing persons I have ever known. She is without question one of the most devoted Christians I have ever known. She is without question one of the most influential witnesses for Christ, the Christian faith, and the Christian Church I have ever known. Whoever came up with the idea of the “Energizer Bunny” in those TV commercials mu...

13. Beware of Crowds

Mark 1:29-39

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Mark Trotter

You read the Gospel of Mark, you get the impression that Jesus didn't like crowds. Which is strange considering that he's a Messiah who has come to save the whole world. But I'll tell you something even stranger, he hides the fact that he is Messiah. When the demons recognize him, he says, "Don't tell anyone. Keep it quiet." Which makes it even more curious, because in this phase of his ministry, ...

14. You Can Be Happy

Mark 1:29-34

Sermon

King Duncan

[While King Duncan is enjoying a well deserved retirement we are going back to his earliest sermons and renewing them. The newly modernized sermon is shown first and below, for reference sake, is the old sermon. We will continue this updating throughout the year bringing fresh takes on King's best sermons.] As I look back on the 20th century there are milestone events: WWII in the 40s, man landing...

15. Why He Came

Mark 1:29-34

Sermon

King Duncan

Three middle-aged men--Joe, Fred and Tom--were discussing the possibility of sudden death. "What would you do if you knew you only had 4 weeks of life remaining?" Joe asked. "First of all," Fred said, "I would quit my job and for those 4 weeks I would do nothing but fish." "Not me," Tom said somberly. "For those 4 weeks, I would spend as much time as possible with my children and let them know ...

16. Fever Pitch

Mark 1:29-39

Sermon

Lori Wagner

In this time of Covid, we all hope and pray that we avoid the virus that has killed to date more than 2,240,000 (million) people around the world, 441,000 in the US alone. As the virus mutates and infections again rise in the middle of our coldest months of winter, many are flocking to get the newly released vaccines. We feel an urgency to protect ourselves from the raging death toll and from even...

17. Be Healed

Mark 1:29-39

Sermon

Michael L. Sherer

A lot of damage has been done to the idea of wellness by “faith healers.” They are not as prevalent in present day American culture as they once were. Decades ago, people with ailments of all sorts would flock to the services of radio / television preacher Oral Roberts. He had the reputation of laying his hands on the diseased parts of the bodies of his supplicants and praying over them. Frequentl...

18. A Deserted Place

Mark 1:29-39

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Billy D. Strayhorn

A friend of mine who is in the computer business and real estate business used to have a sign hanging in his office which maybe you've seen. The sign reads: "Every morning in Africa, a gazelle awakens. It knows it must run faster than the lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion awakens. It knows it must run faster than the gazelle or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether y...

19. Heroines of the Faith

Mark 1:29.39

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David E. Leininger

I am certain that you Bible scholars have experienced the same phenomenon as I have, namely, that you can read the same passage over and over and over again and find something that strikes you anew each time. Scripture does not change, of course, but we change. It is that old saying about not being able to step into the same river twice. That is my experience with this pericope. In years past, I w...

20. Fever!

Mark 1:29-39

Sermon

Lori Wagner

In our culture today, we find ourselves on the “other side” of the most serious pandemic most of us will ever experience. Many who have weathered the illness have said they’ve never felt so ill and depleted before. From high fevers of 104 and above to debilitating fatigue lasting sometimes months afterward, COVID-19 brought us face to face with our own mortality in ways that made us think more dee...

21. Everyone Is Searching For You

Mark 1:35-39

Sermon

Brett Blair

The great architect Frank Lloyd Wright was fond of an incident that may have seemed insignificant at the time, but had a profound influence on the rest of his life. The winter he was 9, he went walking across a snow-covered field with his reserved, no- nonsense uncle. As the two of them reached the far end of the field, his uncle stopped him. He pointed out his own tracks in the snow, straight and...

22. Does Prayer Make Any Diﬀerence?

Mark 1:35-39

Sermon

Charley Reeb

I want to address a subject that many of us struggle with — prayer. Deep inside many of us want to know if prayer makes a difference. And if it does make a difference, what difference does it make? Does prayer really work? If it does work, how does it work? Those of us who are Christians know that prayer is something we ought to do. If we need something — if we are confused about something — if w...

23. All I Need Is A Little Rest!

Mark 1:35-39

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

One of the most effective sermons I have ever preached was shared ten years ago when I was just beginning to preach. I didn’t expect it to be good because I was tired when I wrote it and tired when I preached it. In fact, I was afraid I was failing the people that day because I thought the sermon wasn’t much good at all. In the sermon I shared with the folks why I was so tired, all the things tha...

24. Everyone Is Looking for You

Mark 1:35-39

Sermon

King Duncan

Welcome to this special liturgical holy day known as Super Bowl Sunday. No use fighting it. I know that some of you are focused almost completely on football today. I heard about one young guy who is really in a difficult situation. He bought two tickets for today’s Super Bowl far in advance. He forgot that he and his fiancé had scheduled their wedding for this same day and time. Now he realizes ...

25. God Writes Straight with Crooked Lines

Mark 1:35-39

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

Even if you are not a “senior” whether you’re in prepubescence, adolescence, middlescence, elderescence, or senescence all of us experience “senior moments.” You intentionally set out on a mission to get something — forgotten car keys, replacement printer paper, a fresh cup of coffee — and suddenly you get waylaid by some wayward distraction. You encounter a co-worker with a sudden crisis. A kid ...

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