Mark 9:14–29 | In Mark 9:1–13, Mark provides an account of the “transfiguration,” that unparalleled event when Jesus went up a mountain with only Peter, James, and John. There, those men receive a glimpse of the glory of Jesus. And not only...

Genesis, Luke, Romans, Revelation | In this Easter sermon, we focus on one theme that runs throughout the Scriptures: that Christ has conquered. Of the many things that Easter means, one of the primary things that the resurrection of our Lord...

John 12:20–33

Mark 9:1–13 | In Mark 9:1–13, Jesus’s three closest disciples see Jesus in a way that they had never seen him before and, truly, in a way that they would never have imagined. In one of the most stunning scenes in the entire New Testament, these...

Mark 8:34–38 | This sermon is about a text that is simple and straightforward. At the same time, this text contains a message from Jesus that would have been shocking to all who heard it first and that is still as sobering as anything we hear in...

Mark 8:22–33 | In Mark 8:22–33, we find the one and only time in Mark’s Gospel where Jesus performs a two stage healing where a blind man goes from seeing nothing, to seeing something, to seeing everything. This unique miracle in Mark’s...

Mark 8:1–21 | In Mark 8:1–21, we find Jesus feeding a large crowd with a few loaves of bread for the second time. Why does Jesus do this a second time, and why does Mark tell such a similar story in such close proximity to the feeding of the...

Mark 7:24–37 | In Mark 7:24–37, Jesus enters Gentile territory for the first time in Mark’s Gospel, apart from one stop in Mark 5 for less than a day. Of all the things that happened during Jesus’s journey through Gentile land, Mark tells...

1 Peter 5:6–14

Mark 7:1–23 | In Mark 7, Jesus is confronted about why his disciples don’t walk in line with the Jewish traditions. As we listen to Jesus in this text, we learn of the priority Jesus places on the actual words of Scripture over tradition, the...