by Justin Marple | Mar 5, 2014 | 2014 Sermons, SERMONS
I want us to consider how counter-cultural our liturgy is on Ash Wednesday. Our culture loves to celebrate fools who do not turn to God from their ungrateful and impenitent lifestyles — primarily fools who are rich celebrities. Even if you did not watch the...
by Justin Marple | Mar 2, 2014 | 2014 Sermons, More About the Life of Jesus, SERMONS
Matthew 17:1-9 shows us the transfiguration of Jesus Christ in glory. It is one of those passages where I already knew the key line is spoken from the cloud: “Listen to Him.” Yet I was having trouble listening to Jesus to hear what He was telling me...
by Justin Marple | Feb 23, 2014 | 2014 Sermons, More About the Life of Jesus, SERMONS
Mark 6:30-44 often gets the (uninspired) title in English Bibles: ”Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand.” And yes, this is a good heading for these verses, but there is a significant delay before we actually see Jesus feeding the five thousand. Often life is...
by Justin Marple | Feb 16, 2014 | 2014 Sermons, More About the Life of Jesus, SERMONS
Mark 4:35-41 is not just any ordinary storm. We are so familiar with the story that it is easy to miss the clues, like how there were other boats on the water with Him. And it followed immediately the disciples obeying Jesus. Sometimes we too will obey God and then...
by Justin Marple | Feb 2, 2014 | 2014 Sermons, More About the Life of Jesus, SERMONS
Mark 2:1-12 tells us about the healing of the paralytic who was lowered through the roof of the home where Jesus was living in Capernaum. The people who were there heard something they had never heard before and they saw something they had never seen before. What...
by Justin Marple | Jan 26, 2014 | 2014 Sermons, More About the Life of Jesus, SERMONS
When Jesus turned somewhere around 120-180 gallons of water into wine as told to us in John 2:1-11, surely part of the purpose is to encourage a lot of people for a long time to have a good time — full of joy. He was the kind of person who was always welcome...
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