My older son’s epilepsy; Jim O’Connell and Healthcare for the Homeless; the myth of Sisyphus: Zack reflects on the fact that no one is beyond the reach of Jesus’ saving touch (even if they are beyond the reach of ours). For a handout, visit covmin.org/sermons

Charles Finney, John Wesley; Pandita Ramubai. Zack argues that the key for moving from the question of “What is this?” to the better question of “Who is this?” is encountering Jesus. For a handout, visit covmin.org/sermons

Talking to fifth graders; a chaplain’s reflections: In the second of three sermons on the Stilling of the Storm (Mark 4:35-41), Zack argues that Jesus wants us to have a faith that is calm in the storm and trusts his outcomes and his timing—because God’s love is greater than death. For a handout, visit covmin.org/sermons

Three big words of prayer; peanut allergies; a standing ovation for life: in the first of three sermons on the Stilling of the Storm (Mark 4:35-41), Zack discusses the importance of awe at Jesus’ power (”Who is this?”) and the fact that Jesus allows us to go through storms that can change us. For a handout, visit covmin.org/sermons

Zack struggles with God's apparent unfairness in hardening some people -- and ends up with a vision of God's unfailing mercy. For a handout, visit covmin.org/sermons

Zack makes the point that parables necessarily require us to have ears to hear the Holy Spirit interpreting them for us — and then we pray together through this parable.

Wrestling with what unforgivable “blasphemy against the Holy Spirit” means, Zack tentatively affirms the “traditional” reading that it is a persistent state of rejecting the LORD unto death. Beyond this, Zack suggests that, when faced with the possibility of having committed this sin, we choose the way of Peter, not the way of Judas — throwing ourselves upon the limitless, impossible mercy of God. For a handout, visit covmin.org/sermons

Instead of making ethical decisions by deciding which of two valid principles is more important, Scripture encourages us to look to a paradigm, a Person, as the Truth: Zack draws out the heart of our moral life from Mark 2:13-28. For a handout, visit covmin.org/sermons

The story of a real man with leprosy and a real woman paralyzed from an accident -- and why it matters that we never lose sight of the literal (and the spiritual).

Falling off a horse on one side then the other; driving back from New Jersey with a friend; freedom-from and freedom-for: Zack reflects on the single day with Jesus narrated in Mark 1:14-34.