​Sunday Sermon by Kevin Jensen — Upon his entrance into Jerusalem, Jesus boldly defends the honor of God at the temple, challenging the religious authorities to a duel in the process. Jesus always defends the honor of God—and by a strange miracle, he warns those who do not honor God with good fruit in their lives that they will face judgment from him who is the true King sent from God. Text: Mark 11:1-25

​Sunday Sermon by Kevin Jensen — James and John thought the glory of Jesus' road to Jerusalem would be about conquest, power, and position—but Jesus' glory would be in the cross and in his service to us all. Likewise, Jesus calls us to seek glory not in power or position, but in serving one another, following his example. Text: Mark 10:32-52

​Sunday Sermon by Kevin Jensen — In three consecutive teachings, Jesus teaches his followers that mere adherence to the rules or to cultural expectations is not what God desires most. Rather, God's rules are intended to guide his people into understanding of his deeper will for us, so that we live beyond the rules, doing what is right out of genuine love for God. Text: Mark 10:1-31

​Sunday Sermon by Kevin Jensen — When Jesus' disciples again did not understand his prophecy of his suffering and death, and when they demonstrated their failure to understand through a prideful attitude, Jesus taught them more about what it means to follow him. To be the first, one must become the last and the servant of all. Those who do not oppose us are for us, and we ought to welcome them, not stop them from doing their good work. And God deals very sternly with sin that causes others, or even ourselves, to stumble in faith. But humility like that which Jesus would show in his suffering and death brings peace with one another, just as his death brings us peace with God. Text: Mark 9:30-50

​Sunday Sermon by Kevin Jensen — Jesus and his disciples lived in two realms simultaneously: in heavenly glory, filled with the presence and power of God, and in earthly reality, where sin mars life and troubles abound. In the struggles of Jesus' disciples to dwell in both realms at once, and in Jesus' faithfulness in doing so, we learn how we, too, should live in the present world with all its difficulties, yet live lives filled with the power and glory of God. Text: Mark 9:2-29

​Sunday Sermon by Kevin Jensen — In a story of Jesus healing a blind man, Mark presents us with a conundrum: Why did Jesus' first attempt to heal the man result in an incomplete healing? The teachings that follow present a second riddle: Why would Jesus the Messiah have to suffer and die? With these questions, Mark begins to open our eyes to see not only who Jesus is, but the beginning of what it means to follow him, in both suffering and hope. Text: Mark 8:22 to 9:1

​Sunday Sermon by Phil Diaz — Three little words represent our orientation toward God and his will. Are we like Jonah, who positioned himself against God and did God's will only reluctantly? Or are we like Mary, who offered herself to be God's servant, whatever his will for her might be? Texts: selections from Jonah and from Luke 1:5-38

​Sunday Sermon by Kevin Jensen — In the bright and glorious story of the birth of Jesus come moments of darkness: moments of shame, disappointment, sorrow, cruelty, and tragedy. Yet those dark moments are not able to overwhelm the wonder of the work God was beginning to do through his Son, our Savior. God took those dark moments and transformed them, redeemed them, so that they served his good purposes—just as he will one day redeem all our moments of darkness for those who love him. Text: Matthew 1:18 to 2:23

​Sunday Sermon by Kevin Jensen — "Watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees and that of Herod," Jesus told his disciples. But what did he mean? They thought—wrongly—that he was talking about bread. But he was teaching them to think in a manner different from the rest of the world and more like God. He teaches us to do the same. Text: Mark 7:1 to 8:21

​Sunday Sermon by Kevin Jensen — Two amazing miracles revealed more about who Jesus is—but would his disciples understand that he was more than a new Moses, more than a prophet greater than Elisha? Jesus, the Son of God, made the impossible possible by the power of his mere word—and he still does the same in our lives today. Text: Mark 6:30-56