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Three Comparisons
Biblical Text: Mark 1:14-20 Full Sermon Draft The text is the emergence of Jesus after the arrest of John the Baptist and his calling of disciples. This sermon looks at three sets of comparisons...
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Celebrity Jesus
Biblical Text: Mark 1:21-28 Full Sermon Draft The text is Jesus’ exorcism of a unclean spirit in the midst of the synagogue. But the tension in the early part of the gospel of mark is between the...
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That is why I came…
Texts: Mark 1:29-39, 1 Corinthians 9:16-27, Isaiah 40:21-31 Full Sermon Draft The collection of texts assigned for today stuck me this week as wanting to talk about preaching. Jesus confronts himself...
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Transcendent – Sign and Reality
Biblical Text: Mark 9:2-9 Full Sermon Draft One of the things I think is constant in our experience is a desire for the transcendent. I’ll use as a quick definition of the transcendent something that...
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Sweet, Pure and Costly
Biblical Text: Mark 14:1-11, Mark 14:53-65, Mark 15:1-15, Mark 15:25-37 Full Sermon Draft The appointed texts for Palm Sunday have morphed into The Sunday of the Passion. The introduction to the...
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Beginnings and Endings – A Cruciform Existence
Biblical Text: Mark 6:1-30 Full Sermon Draft Under the biblical text I put the full text I was drawing from. The reading is only Mark 6:1-13, but I think that cuts off a significant element of...
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God Passes By
Biblical Text: Mark 6:45-56 Full Sermon Draft (Recording note: Sorry I forgot to start the system, so I didn’t start recording until the gospel text. The OT and Epistle lesson of the day which I...
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Be Opened – The Kingdom Inbreaking in Unexpected Ways
Biblical Text: Mark 7:31-37 Full Sermon Draft This sermon is based on a “level 2” reading of the Gospel of Mark. What I mean by level 2 is that to make the connections necessary you have to look at...
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Faith over Fear
Biblical Text: Mark 9:14-29 Full Sermon Draft Fear is just not a permanent facet of the Christian life. It is not that we don’t feel it. It is not that we are spared the type of experiences that bring...
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Kingdom Memory, Kingdom Walk
Biblical Text: Mark 9:38-50 Full Sermon Draft The Gospel of Mark, per the early church, is the memories/sermons/stories of Peter written down around the time of his death. And I tend to think at the...
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