Mark's gospel is the only gospel account to skip over the birth of Jesus.However, Mark's account, through the life and ministry of Jesus, repeats time & again the miracle of Christmas and can provide us with divine help for this Holiday Season.

Storms have a tendency to either flood faith & foster fear OR father faith & flood fear.Find out when fear can be good and how we can move through our fears trusting the Man of Rest and the Lord of the Storm.

Sometimes how someone says something is nearly as important as what they say. Such is the case here as Jesus shares with those present four rapid-fire parables. How does he expect them to grapple with and fully understand what He is saying?He doesn’t.What each parable has in common is the unusual goodness present in everyday life. Similarly, Jesus means to communicate to us a sampling of unusual goodness that, having tasted, we might further inquire within.

The people of Sunrise Community Church reflect upon & testify to God's gracious work amongst us corporately & individually over this past year.Includes a brief devotional from Pastor Ryan on the importance of regularly reflecting upon the past for discerning what God is doing in the present.

Those who hear and accept Jesus' teaching will be rewarded with more of Jesus himself.

The deep community for which you were made is found only by those who embrace Jesus completely.

Everybody is looking in life to replicate that full satisfactory exhale at the completion of work well done. God designed us for such satisfaction in completed work just as he took satisfaction in His own. However, the way we would go about becoming rest assured that the work we’ve done is fully complete, does not necessarily align with God’s way. He wishes for us to make more margin for trust in His work…and He set apart a day for us to do just that.

To the reader, Mark 2:18-22 can often prove to be “next-versers" - a verse or passage so obscure and difficult to figure out that it’s tempting to just go and skip ahead to the next verse. However Jesus is asked his most important question yet: What makes your followers different? What makes Christians different?His response revolutionizes the typical way we worship. We can no longer worship God in the same way.

How would you take advantage of astonishing a crowd? How would you capitalize on telling them the greatest news they'd ever heard? How would you spend the authority given to you?In Jesus Christ, God Condescends. Pastor Ryan explains what that means from this moment in Mark's Gospel.

This side of the Mount of Transfiguration (Mark 9) there is perhaps no more colorful cast of characters than the one we find in this moment in Capernaum - A despairing man in need, friends whose faith can't fail, fact-finding religious-types who starting here chart a course of opposition against Jesus, a crowd who provides more than just a backdrop, and Jesus Himself.Yet two of these characters struggle to not miss entirely exactly why it is God has brought them here to encounter Jesus. Not surprisingly, it is from these two characters we can learn the most.