Who are you? What can you do about the broken things about you? What is the purpose of your life? Jesus taught the Parable of the Good Samaritan in part to give us answers to these questions - and to meet us in the places of our deepest needs. 

This sermon is the first in a series on the parables of Jesus, "Stories of the King" that show us who God is, who we are, and what God's kingdom is like.

This sermon was preached at All Souls Presbyterian Church on May 8 as a part of a series on the Ascension of Jesus Christ. 

Who is Jesus? A good moral teacher? A man possessed by demons? A fraud? Mark 1:29-45 offers us a vision of the heart and mission of Jesus so that we can know who he is, why he came, and how knowing him changes everything.