If you have been following closely with our sermon series in Mark you may have picked up on this theme of Jesus always seeming to lead His disciples right into the thick of messy and difficult situations; run in's with religious leaders, sick people, large crowds, demon possessed people...
We think is is very important to study Jesus. Jesus didn't come simply saying He was another good teacher, or simply a prophet among other prophets, but came saying that He was God in the flesh. This is a weighty claim that if is untrue, is of no importance at all, but if He truly is who he says...
Mark 4:35-41 will be our text for this week. In it we see Jesus and His disciples go on boat ride that would lead them straight into the eye of a fierce storm. Waves were filling the boat, the disciples were in turmoil, but where is Jesus? Asleep, on a cushion, as calm as can be. The disciples...
The parables of Jesus. If you've ever read them and felt confused, you are probably in good company. In Mark 4:1-20, our sermon text for this week, we will focus in on one of Jesus most famous parables, or as Jesus seems to put it, this parable is the one which unlocks all of the other...
Sermon Pre-view: So far in Mark we have seen people calling Jesus a slew of names. The demons call Him "The Holy One of God" and "The Son of God". The people call Him "blasphemer", "glutton & drunkard", "fast-breaker", "sabbath-breaker", and finally in 3:21 we see His own family say that...
Jesus showdown with the Scribes and Pharisees continues this week in Mark 2:18-3:6. The people begin to question the legitimacy of Jesus ministry in regards to fasting, because all of the prominent religious factions of the time practiced such things, but they had yet to observe Jesus and His...
In Mark 2:13-17 we see Jesus yet again calling a man to himself, but this was not just any man, this man was a tax collector. As we learned a few weeks back, Jesus also associated with and healed a Leper, one of the most unclean and shunned people in Jesus day. In calling this tax collector to...
This Sunday we begin chapter 2 of the Gospel of Mark. Jesus is continuing to attract large crowds as they hear about his teaching and miracles He has performed. This account escalates pretty quickly as we see the crowd pressing in upon the home where Jesus was, and men begin to tear through the...
This is going to be an exciting Sunday in the history of our church! We have the privilege of installing our 2 new Elders, Casey Shutt and Tom Lyons, into leadership at Sacred City. This officially moves us from being a "Church plant" to a full on "Church" in the Biblical sense. God has been...
This Sunday we will explore Christ's influence and authority as he calls the first disciples to follow him, and also casts out a demon from a man after astonishing people with authoritative teaching. Our sermon text will be from Mark 1:14-28. Songs we will sing this week... Doxology by Coram...
