Desperate, sick people run to Jesus and reach out just to touch the edge of his robe. Nearby, religious leaders accuse his disciples of being unclean because they skipped a hand-washing ritual. Same Jesus, two very different responses.

In this message from our study through the Gospel of Mark, Pastor Jason Smith looks at Mark 6:53 through chapter 7 and asks where true cleansing is actually found. Jason walks through why Jesus says the real problem was never on the outside, it's the heart, and why the same Jesus who let the unclean touch him without becoming unclean took our uncleanness on the cross so we could be made new.

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Sea of Galilee to rescue his disciples in a storm. Two miracles, back-to-back, and in this message from our study of the Gospel of Mark, Pastor Jason Smith shows us why Mark tells them together.

The disciples watched Jesus provide more than enough when the task was impossible. But hours later, in the middle of a storm, they missed him completely. Jason walks through what they should have remembered and what it means for us when obedience leads us somewhere we cannot handle on our own.

Scripture: Mark 6:33-52
Series: Gospel of Mark
Speaker: Pastor Jason Smith

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Every one of us wants our life to count. But how do you know if it will?

In this message from our study through the Gospel of Mark, Pastor Jason Smith looks at Mark 6:7-30, where the disciples return from their first mission trip, celebrating healings and changed lives, right as Mark interrupts the story to tell us how John the Baptist died in a prison cell.

Two endings that could not look more different. Jason unpacks why Mark places them side by side and what it teaches us about measuring a life, not by results, not by applause, but by faithfulness.

Scripture: Mark 6:7-30
Series: Gospel of Mark
Speaker: Pastor Jason Smith

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Mark 6:1-6 | Pastor Daniel Justice

In the Gospels, Jesus marvels at something only twice: once at great faith, and once at complete unbelief. In this message from Mark 6:1-6, Pastor Daniel Justice takes us to Nazareth, where Jesus returns home and the people who watched him grow up, his neighbors, his own family, take offense at him instead of believing.

Pastor Daniel unpacks four questions the hometown crowd asked about Jesus and shows how each one still lives in our own hearts today. The application lands close to home: proximity to Jesus is not the same thing as surrender to him. You can know the songs, the language, and the routines of church and still miss him completely.

Part of our ongoing study through the Gospel of Mark.

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Two people. Two impossible situations. One King who has authority over both.

In this message from Mark 5:21-43, Pastor Jason Smith continues the Gospel of Mark series by walking through the healing of a woman who had suffered for twelve years and the raising of Jairus's twelve-year-old daughter. Both stories point to the same truth: the wind knows him, the demons know him, disease knows him, and even death knows who he is.

If you're facing something that feels beyond help today, this message is for you.

Scripture: Mark 5:21-43

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In this message from the Gospel of Mark series, Pastor Jason Smith takes us to the shores of the Gerasenes, where Jesus encounters a man possessed by a legion of demons. Through this account, we see that sin never stays where we put it, that Jesus's authority reaches into the darkest places, and that no one is too far gone for the hope of the Gospel. Whether you're walking with Jesus or wondering if He could ever reach you, this message speaks directly to that question.

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Chad Mason preaches Mark 4:35–41 — the story of Jesus calming the storm on the Sea of Galilee. In this message, Chad explores the contrast between how the disciples and Jesus each interpreted the same storm, unpacks why the disciples were more terrified after Jesus stilled the waves than during them, and addresses the hard theological question: if God can calm storms, why doesn't he stop all of them? This sermon lands in real grief — the first anniversary of the July 4th Guadalupe River flood that devastated families in our own community, and this week's earthquakes in Venezuela — and offers a word that isn't easy but is true: peace is not found when storms cease. It's found when you know Jesus, who is with you in the storm. Part of FBC Boerne's ongoing series in the Gospel of Mark.

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Mark 4:21–34 | Pastor Jason Smith
FBC Boerne — Gospel of Mark Series

Corrie ten Boom was furious about the fleas. Imprisoned at Ravensbruck, assigned to a barracks crawling with them, it felt like the final evidence that God had abandoned her. Her sister Betsy quoted 1 Thessalonians 5:18 — give thanks in all circumstances — and eventually, reluctantly, Corrie did.

Months later she learned the guards had refused to enter Barracks 28 because of the fleas. The very thing she'd raged against had been shielding hundreds of women as they read Scripture together, worshipped, and came to faith in Jesus.

At the beginning, all she could see were the fleas. At the end, she saw the hand of God.

In this Father's Day message, Pastor Jason Smith opens Mark 4:21–34 — the lamp on the lampstand, the growing seed, and the mustard seed — and works through the question the disciples were quietly carrying: if the kingdom of God is here, why doesn't it look like it? The crowds are shrinking. The opposition is growing. This is not what they expected.

Jesus answers with parables that reframe everything. The kingdom isn't hidden — but it requires ears to hear. It grows even when no one can see it. And what looks impossibly small today will one day be the place of refuge for people from every tribe, tongue, and nation on earth.

A message for anyone in a season where faithfulness feels fruitless and the harvest seems a long way off.

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Continuing our series through the Gospel of Mark, Pastor Daniel Justice unpacks the Parable of the Sower (Mark 4:1-20) and a question every believer eventually faces: how do we make sense of the mixed responses we see to Jesus around us? Through four soils and one sower, Jesus prepares His disciples, and us, to sow faithfully no matter the soil, because the harvest is certain.

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