July 5, 2015
“All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.” MATTHEW 28:18 Given the breathtaking and all-encompassing nature of the above claim, the religious authorities had the gall to ask Jesus for...
View ArticleJuly 12, 2015
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not...
View ArticleJuly 19, 2015
“Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.” MARK 12:17 No matter where Jesus turns in Mark, it seems that the hostile questions just keep on coming. In chapter 12, right on the heals...
View ArticleJuly 26, 2015
“Are you not in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God?” MARK 12:24 Ouch. Tired of watching their religious brethren attempt to trap Jesus, the Sadducees thought they would...
View ArticleAugust 2, 2015
For God so loved the world that he gave….. JOHN 3:16 =“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact...
View ArticleAugust 9, 2015
“A defender of widows . . .” PSALM 68:5 This week, as Erik Thoennes preaches from the gospel of Mark, we see a side of Jesus that we haven’t previously seen: the Son of God acting as a righteous judge....
View ArticleAugust 16, 2015
“Let the reader understand.” MARK 13:14 As they were leaving the temple area, one of the disciples gushed: “Look, Teacher! What massive stones! What magnificent buildings!” MARK 13:1 Moments later,...
View ArticleAugust 19, 2015
“…keep awake…” MARK 13:33 “…stay awake…” MARK 13:34 “…stay awake…” MARK 13:35 “…stay awake…” MARK 13:37 Four times in five verses, Jesus says these words. For roughly 2000 years the Church has waited...
View ArticleAugust 26, 2015
“As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is...
View ArticleSeptember 6, 2015
“Devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture.” 1 TIMOTHY 4:13 This Sunday is the final Mark reading service, as we consider the dramatic passion events of Jesus’ life, followed by the empty tomb...
View ArticleSeptember 13, 2015
Remember when the ark was being bought back into Jerusalem, and, as an act of worship, David danced before the Lord? Remember how his wife Michal rebuked him? She was somehow threatened by his...
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September 20, 2015
“The disciples . . . found things just as Jesus had told them.” MARK 14:16 The upper room . . . In all of history, has there ever been another evening spent with so much on the line for so many? Think...
View ArticleOctober 11, 2015
“…you will deny me three times.” MARK 14:72 This coming Sunday we will consider the low point in Peter’s life as Jackson Randall preaches from the book of Mark. We aren’t quite to advent yet, but John...
View ArticleOctober 18, 2015
Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame… HEBREWS 12:2 As we continue our preaching series in Mark, the specifics of...
View ArticleOctober 25, 2015
“Did e’re such love and sorrow meet?” ISAAC WATTS What a privilege is ours at Grace to have reached the heart of the Gospel of Mark. This Sunday, we’ll move from the courtroom travesty to Golgotha, as...
View ArticleNovember 1, 2015
“His wounds have paid my ransom.” STUART TOWNEND “The world takes us to a silver screen on which flickering images of passion and romance play, and as we watch, the world says, ‘This is love.’ “God...
View ArticleNovember 8, 2015
He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in His death, though He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth. ISAIAH 53:9 This Sunday, Erik Thoennes will preach to us from...
View ArticleNovember 15, 2015
“He has risen!” MARK 16:6 That angel at the empty grave site uttered the three most powerful, meaningful, life-giving words that have ever been spoken on earth. On second thought, “it is finished”...
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