by Justin Marple | Feb 22, 2015 | 2015 Sermons, Mark from Transfiguration to Palm Sunday, SERMONS
Mark 9:14-29 is the passage immediately after the Transfiguration. Thus there is a pattern in the Scriptures of baptism of the beloved Son, casting out demons; transfiguration of the beloved Son, casting out demons. I am grateful that we do not get many requests for...
by Justin Marple | Feb 8, 2015 | 2015 Sermons, Exodus, SERMONS
This is already the third episode in a row where the people of Israel were grumbling about being thirsty or hungry. That there are two very similar stories about being thirsty so close together shows that Israel’s lack of trust in God is absurd. Worse, they...
by Justin Marple | Feb 1, 2015 | 2015 Sermons, Exodus, SERMONS
On a first read it might seem really surprising how gracious God is to the people of Israel. I mean He just saved them from Egypt by parting the waters so that they could go through on dry ground and then He drowned the Egyptians in the sea. You know the story so...
by Justin Marple | Jan 25, 2015 | 2015 Sermons, Exodus, SERMONS
It is obvious that we do not yet live in the Promised Land of the new heavens and earth — a land where the river of the water of life, bright as crystal is flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the city with the tree...
by Justin Marple | Jan 18, 2015 | 2015 Sermons, Exodus, SERMONS
You know what it is like to taste bitter water. Your cold that will just not go away, your knee that gives you excruciating pain, the cancer growing in your body, your job that drains the joy from your life, your child who has strayed away from what is good,...
by Justin Marple | Jan 11, 2015 | 2015 Sermons, Exodus, SERMONS
There is just something about music. Unlike speaking, singing engages the whole person–your heart, mind, will, body, and everything else–can be engaged in the praise of God. This is one reason that it can and should be so difficult to shut off...
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