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Ephesians 6:4 · Ephesians 5:18
Family
What God Wants In a Father
God calls fathers to nurture and train their children in his ways through present, patient investment—not domination or emotional provocation. Fathers build spiritual foundations through time, consistency, and intentional involvement.
Mark 12:35-44 · Mark 11:10
Mark
A Riddle
Jesus poses a riddle about the Messiah being both David's son and David's Lord, revealing his divine nature. True love for God requires awareness of who Jesus is, evidenced not through public displays of piety but through wholehearted commitment and sacrifice, like the widow who gave all she had.
Mark 9:30-37
Be a Servant
Jesus calls his followers to reject the world's value of independence and power, instead embracing servanthood like a child—powerless and obedient to God's will—which paradoxically grants true freedom from sin, guilt, and shame.
Mark 14:26-31 · Zechariah 13:7
Mark
Commitment and Failure
This sermon examines Peter's overconfidence before his denial and Jesus's assurance that failure is temporary. God restores and transforms failure into triumph.
Mark 11:20-33
Mark
Do I Have Enough Faith?
This sermon examines Jesus's teaching on faith in Mark 11, arguing that faith is not about having perfect belief or guaranteed outcomes, but about the ongoing journey of seeking, hearing, and accepting God's voice through life's challenges.
Mark 14:1-11
Mark
Do What You Can
This sermon examines the unnamed woman who anoints Jesus at Bethany, arguing that faithful service requires not grand gestures but simply doing what one can within one's sphere of influence, allowing our behaviors to speak louder than our words.
Mark 10:32-45 · 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
Mark
Dying to Serve
True greatness in God's kingdom comes through serving others, not seeking power or position. Jesus exemplifies this through his sacrificial death, which ransoms us from sin and calls us to live as his own.
Mark 7:24-30 · Mark 3:8
Faith Over Obstacles
This sermon examines how the Syrophoenician woman's bold faith in Jesus, despite being a Gentile outsider, demonstrates that faith trusts God's ability even when obstacles seem insurmountable and the divine plan remains unclear.
Mark 3:20-35
Mark
Jesus Is Insane
Jesus' family and religious leaders dismiss him as insane, but he reveals that true family consists of those who commit fully to God's will. Without faith in Jesus, there is no hope.
Mark 2:13-17
Mark
Let's Have Dinner
Jesus demonstrates God's heart by eating with tax collectors and sinners, challenging believers to abandon judgmental attitudes and befriend the spiritually lost rather than waiting for them to become worthy of grace.
Mark 8:27-38 · Daniel 7:13-14
Mark
Our Confession
To confess Jesus as the Christ carries profound consequences: we must think, act, and die like him, reorienting our entire lives around God's kingdom rather than the world's values.
Philippians 4:4-9 · Galatians 5:22
Philippians
Prayer, Anxiety, and Thanks
Prayer replaces anxiety when believers rejoice, make requests with thanksgiving, and focus on what is true and good. God's peace comes to those who shift their thinking from worry to praise.
2 Corinthians 12:1-10 · 2 Corinthians 11:16-30
Prayers and God's Answers
God answers all prayers, though not always as we desire. Through Paul's example of his thorn and suffering, this sermon examines how accepting God's answers—especially his 'no'—allows divine strength to be revealed through human weakness.
Romans 8:1-17 · Acts 18:2
Romans
Real Freedom
Through the Holy Spirit's work, believers receive a spiritually transformed heart and freedom from condemnation and the law's bondage. The invitation is to cooperate with the Spirit's leading rather than return to old patterns of shame and death.
Mark 1:21-28 · Mark 1:15
Response to Authority
Jesus teaches with divine authority that amazes and convicts listeners, calling them to respond either by accepting and sharing his message or by rejecting it. His power demonstrates that genuine authority flows from experience with truth itself.
Mark 2:23-3:6 · Deuteronomy 23:25
Mark
Rules or People
Jesus challenges the prioritization of religious rules over human needs, demonstrating that people and their wellbeing matter more than rule-keeping, and that God's heart is centered on compassion rather than rigid enforcement.
Mark 10:13-16
Simple Faith
Childlike faith is humble trust in God without needing all the answers. Jesus calls believers to embrace simple, dependent trust like children rather than demanding intellectual certainty.
Mark 7:1-23 · 1 Samuel 16:7
Mark
The Heart
God judges the heart, not external actions. Jesus teaches that moral integrity comes from internal character, not ritual observance or outward appearance.
Mark 1:40-45
Mark
The Heart of God
This sermon examines Jesus's healing of a leper to reveal God's compassionate heart—a heart that takes our place so we might be restored to community with him and with others.
Mark 5:21-43
Mark
Two Daughters
This sermon explores two intertwined stories of healing in Mark 5, examining how Jesus brings hope to those experiencing hopelessness through waiting and faith. The parallel suffering of two unnamed daughters—one bleeding for twelve years, one dying—reveals God's intimate knowledge and care, calling believers to trust despite circumstances.
Mark 12:13-17
Mark
What Belongs to God?
Jesus teaches that while we must fulfill our civic duties to earthly governments, our hearts and allegiance ultimately belong to God alone. The call is to give God what is rightfully his—ourselves.
Mark 9:42-50 · Mark 8:34
What's Better Than Life?
Jesus uses hyperbolic warnings about hell to challenge disciples to abandon whatever prevents wholehearted following. The sermon calls believers to recognize their true purpose—revealing Jesus—and willingly exchange comfort, pride, and ease for the costly path of taking up the cross daily.
Mark 4:35-41 · Psalm 89:5-9
Mark
Who Is This?
Through the account of Jesus calming the storm, this sermon examines how the disciples' fear reveals their incomplete faith despite witnessing Jesus' power, challenging believers to recognize Jesus' identity as God and trust Him beyond what circumstances appear to show.
Mark 14:32-42
Why?
When suffering comes, followers of Jesus must choose to accept God's will through faith and obedience, as Jesus demonstrated in Gethsemane by surrendering his desire for deliverance to his Father's purpose.