THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK

August 7, 2016   Have you ever been reading the Bible and come across a passage you didn’t understand – a really tough one that caused you to say, “Nu-uh! That doesn’t sound right”? The passage before us today is such a text for me. In fact, I have a book in my library entitled, […]

July 31, 2016   Imagine with me two weddings. The first is not just any wedding – it is the wedding, with the bride and the groom. The bride is perfect, in every way. She has the most beautiful wedding dress you’ve ever seen. It’s breathtaking – long, white, flowing. Her makeup is applied perfectly, […]

July 24, 2016   The Broadway musical “Fiddler on the Roof” opened in 1964 and ran for over 3,200 performances at the Imperial Theatre in New York. It didn’t’ close until 1972. It won a Tony for best musical of the year, and, at the time, was the longest-running show in history. The movie version […]

July 17, 2016   There are four gospels in the New Testament – Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. They all tell the story of Jesus. As a result, since they tell the same story, three of them are quite similar – Matthew, Mark and Luke. In fact, those three are called the synoptic gospels because […]

July 10, 2016   Before us this morning lies one of the most familiar stories in the Bible – the feeding of the five thousand. It’s a story we’ve heard from childhood, in just about every Sunday school we’ve ever attended. The challenge before us is to take this familiar story, and make it fresh. […]