Rev. Paul Leonard

Jesus could find any respect in his hometown. This sermon follows the text a bit more loosely than our series has so far, focusing on the 10th commandment (9th in some traditions) "Thou shall not covet"

Today's sermon explores two different miracles of Jesus that the Gospel of Mark wraps together. We explore why Jesus' healing of the woman with the 12 year hemorrhage and the raising of the synagogue leader's daughter are wrapped together in Mark. 

We look at what is a very long story of a demon being cast out in the Gospel of Mark. Mark takes a long time to develop the details, and we look at what some of those details mean; also focus on Jesus' transformative deliverance.

We look at the Story of Jesus quieting the storm.  This will be a limited availability sermon.

Mark uses 4 agricultural parables to describe the kingdom of God back to back. But in the Gospel of Mark the key phrase the "kingdom of God" makes the meaning a bit nuanced from normal.

We look at how the parable of the sower fits specifically in Mark

Jesus is accused by the Pharisees and scribes of healing with black magic, at the same time his Mother and family fail to understand him. Jesus uses the moment to teach who his true family are.

In today's episode Jesus selects the Twelve Disciples. We take a look at the 13 men Jesus selected to start his church and carry out his mission

Jesus makes a bold claim in todays text, then he goes even further by making the bold action of healing on the Sabbath. In the 5 conflicts of Mark Ch 2 this action becomes the last straw for Jesus' opponents

In Mark Ch2, Jesus gets in 5 conflicts with the Pharisees as he is ministering in Galilee.  In calling Levi and eating with sinners Jesus also should be challenging us! The action is more radical than we assume if we really dig into the text.