Mark 4:35-41 {Prayer} A simple little journey, a routine trip, a trip that you make every single day … one little thing different happens and that physical journey turns into a spiritual journey. For example, driving to and from work, a trip that you make every single day, and one day a…
Mark 4:26-34 {Prayer} We are currently living in the midst of this “mysterious middle.” Who would have thought to be here in the middle of June and still be planting the spring crops? With a late planting, the question of what the final harvest will look like. With a late planting, there can…
Mark 10:46-52 {Prayer} Our Old Testament reading this morning from Jeremiah talks about a journey. A journey which exiled Israelites will take from their captive city of Babylon back to their homeland, back to Israel, back to Jerusalem. Jeremiah describes this journey as one which will be flat, straight, through a desert but yet…
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Mark 10:17-22 {Prayer} As you drive around town this time of year, you see these white signs with a picture of dog on them. These white signs say “Welcome PKC and Hunters.” Essentially … welcome all of you raccoon hunters. Seeing those signs, reading our gospel, glancing at previous sermons for a creative…
Mark 5:21-43 {Prayer} King Solomon starts Ecclesiastes 3 saying that “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven.” In verse four he says there is “a time to weep and a time to laugh.” There is a time to mourn, to complain, to shed tears, to lament…
Mark 12:28-34 {Prayer} In high school but mainly in college, if I had to ride with someone and there was a group of us going, there was always a race to the car. It didn’t matter if we were driving two blocks to the local convenient store or if we were going 20 minutes…
Mark 11:15-19 {Prayer} On a dangerous sea coast where shipwrecks often occur, there was once a crude little lifesaving station. The building was just a little hut with only one boat and a few devoted members who kept a constant watch over the sea. With no thought for themselves, they went out day and…
Mark 1:21-28 {Prayer} Hymnals or screens. Liturgy out of hymnals or Creative Worship printed out in bulletins. Organ or piano or praise teams. Robes or suits or jeans and a polo or sweater. Children’s message or not. Traditional worship or Contemporary worship. Stage and auditorium or gym or an altar area and sanctuary. These…
Mark 16:1-8 (ESV)The Resurrection16 When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. 2 And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. 3 And they were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from…