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As we close in on the last couple of days before Jesus’ death,

there is little neutral ground in the hearts of humankind. In light of Jesus’ love, tender hearts can’t hold back their lavish worship, and hard hearts grow harder still.

This passage contains Jesus’ longest uninterrupted teaching in the gospel of Mark. In response to the disciples marveling at the magnificence of the Jerusalem temple, Jesus predicts its utter destruction, after which the disciples when that will happen and when will be the sign that it’s about to take place.

After fielding a series of deceptive, adversarial questions with wisdom and grace, Jesus now asks a single powerful question, and reveals a prophetic truth, rattling the tenets of the religious core and their systemic manipulation, domination, and exploitation. The audience listens with delight as Jesus reveals Himself as the God who sees.

We all take comfort in being right. “Being right” helps us justify our

wrongs and make sense of wounds. “Being right” protects us from villains and liberates us to pursue the good life, or so we think. But happens when we find out our mind map of “being right” is off? What happens when we realize we don’t see life as clearly as we thought? Jesus eases the burden of our incessant needs of “being

right” and invites us to follow Him along the path to living well—truly liberated to live a life of love. In this sermon we explore what happens when the people most obsessed with being right confront the author of life.

Marvelous Jesus by Reality Santa Barbara

Lead Pastor Stephen Posey talks about three commitments on a short sermon over Mark 3:13–19.

Pastor of Spiritual Formation & Worship , Joseph Pfeifer continues the series Jesus is King with Mark 11:27-33 and Mark 12:1-12

The disciples marvel that Jesus’ words had such power; Everyone wants prayer that works, but no one seems to know how prayer works. Jesus makes another astounding promise about prayer and invites them to experience a Jesus kind of faith for themselves.

Jesus disrupts the way access to God happens forever, making the meritocracy of religious achievement obsolete currency, and disarms the powers of religious exploitation.

What does Jesus see when He looks at you? This week we are looking at a mysterious prophetic parable Jesus enacts in front of His disciples and what it means to us today.