by Justin Marple | Apr 3, 2015 | 2015 Sermons, Mark from Transfiguration to Palm Sunday, SERMONS
Bonus sermon for Maundy Thursday on Mark 14:12-31 originally heard in the context of a Tenebrae service of shadows. There are some big differences between our culture today and that which we find in the story of Jesus’ Passover meal. For example, in our...
by Justin Marple | Mar 29, 2015 | 2015 Sermons, Mark from Transfiguration to Palm Sunday, SERMONS
Jesus is asking us this question today. Many people want Jesus to give them a promotion at work, or a new job, or a fancy car, or a better home, or a date with their secret crush, or the like. I’ve read about one prayer group who decided that they were going...
by Justin Marple | Mar 22, 2015 | 2015 Sermons, Mark from Transfiguration to Palm Sunday, SERMONS
The disciples in Mark 9 and 10 are meant to look rather absurd to you. They act like they are magicians who just need to know the magic words to cast out especially difficult unclean spirits. They argue with one another over who is the greatest among them. They try...
by Justin Marple | Mar 15, 2015 | 2015 Sermons, Mark from Transfiguration to Palm Sunday, SERMONS
Then who can be saved? This is the question that Jesus has been answering for us the last three Sundays and again today. Indeed, Jesus has been teaching us the last three Sundays how to be an effective church. We might have thought that we just need the right...
by Justin Marple | Mar 8, 2015 | 2015 Sermons, Mark from Transfiguration to Palm Sunday, SERMONS
Things today are not all that different from the first century when Jesus taught His disciples the nature of discipleship. Most families at the time were blended families with children from multiple mothers living together. Usually children today stay with mom, but...
by Justin Marple | Mar 1, 2015 | 2015 Sermons, Mark from Transfiguration to Palm Sunday, SERMONS
I cannot help but be inspired by the recent witness of Christians persecuted by Islamic extremists. The 21 Coptic Christians who were beheaded in Libya as they affirmed that Jesus is Lord rather than renouncing their faith. Stories of children who before they were...
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