In a world of instability, Jesus calls his followers to join him on a mission of word and deed. In this sermon, Fr. Michael looks at Mark 6:7-13 to explore how we can faithfully follow Christ on mission in unstable times.

In the story of Jesus’ return to Nazareth, we get a glimpse of how community does or does not reshape around God’s presence in their midst. Jacob Palmer shows us how Mark 6:1-6 reveals that faithfulness as a community  means humbly laying down our expectations and conforming to Christ.

Fr. Michael explores how the biblical concept of shalom is at play in the background of the episode from Mark 5:1-20 when Jesus delivers the man possessed with the unclean spirit.

Caught in a dangerous storm, the disciples question Jesus’s care for them. Jesus calms the storm and demonstrates his divinity and his abundant care. In this sermon, Katherine Franker challenges to have faith in Jesus in the midst of the storms of life.

In Mark 4:26-34, Jesus compares God’s kingdom to a mustard seed. Listen in as Fr. Michael unpacks what Jesus might have meant by this unusual comparison.

In Mark 3:20-35, Fr. Michael shows that Jesus challenges the priority of biological family in God’s Kingdom and reorients all family around Himself.

In this homily, Zen Hess reflects on Jesus’s teaching on the sabbath in Mark 2:23-28. He invites the church to think of God’s commandments as a gift, one that invites us into a life lived with God.

Fr. Michael reflects on three implications of the Ascension for us today.

Fr. Michael unpacks Jesus' call to his followers to abide in him.

Against the backdrop of the ancient world in which women were considered sub-human, Jesus' treatment of the women he encountered, along with the New Creation he would inaugurate with this death and resurrection, declared that the old order under sin and death was passing away and the new order of God's reign was coming into the world. Dr. Liz Marvel preaches on the significance of Jesus' encounter with two women--the bleeding woman and Jairus' daughter--found in Mark 5.