May 31, 2020 to September 20, 2020
The gospel of Mark takes a concise and practical approach to the ministries of Christ. In this series, we are challenged to look at our lives and apply the teachings of Jesus to our modern culture.
Mark 1
As we begin a new series looking through the book of Mark, Pastor Doug introduces us to the beginnings of Jesus’s ministry.
Mark 2
Pastor Doug takes us through Jesus's love for us in the second chapter of the book of Mark, and how it relates to the pains that our world is going through today.
Mark 3
Pastor Ben takes us through the third chapter of Mark, and tells us what it means to be in the family of Christ and to help each other mature in our Christian walks.
Mark 4
This week, Pastor Doug encourages us to be sure that we have Jesus awake in our lives as we go through storms.
Mark 5
Jesus overcame several barriers to save a man who needed Christ. Many people would have said the man could not have been saved, and would not have wanted him to be saved. The largest impact we can show the world is a changed life. After Jesus changes a life, people should want to stay with Him all the time. However, a changed life is called to tell everybody around about Christ in their lives.
Mark 6
Pastor Ben challenges us to serve God by bringing others closer to Him. We can have many excuses to avoid our callings, but we need to remember that God is bigger and stronger than our circumstances, and He will empower us if we step out in faith.
Mark 7
Pastor Doug shows us that Jesus spoke mainly to three groups of people - the large crowd that followed Him, the day’s religious leaders, and His disciples. As we look into the seventh chapter of Mark, we see Jesus’s scolding the religious leaders for putting importance on tradition instead of seeking the Father with their hearts.
Mark 8
This week, Pastor Doug takes us through the eighth chapter of Mark, and explains to us the dangers of looking at our circumstances from an earthly and temporal point of view, instead of a holy and eternal perspective.
Mark 9
Many times in life, we can find ourselves in a position where we want to skip some of the steps that God has planned for us. This week, Pastor Doug takes us through Mark 9, and how Jesus needed to continually tell the disciples that we need to go through certain stages in our walks with Him in order to get to where we should be.
Mark 10
God's plan for our lives may often seem complicated, and following His will can frequently seem to be just as daunting of a task. This week, Josh Knipple teaches us that getting back to the simplicity of taking one step at a time can be a key to avoid becoming overwhelmed.
Mark 11
As Jesus enters Jerusalem, He first goes to the Temple to see its condition. Similarly today, He wants to see the condition of our hearts. Will we allow Christ to overturn tables in our lives so we can live in His will, or will we look for a way to push Him out?
Mark 12
As Pastor Doug takes us through Mark 12, we see Jesus's parable describing the world's response toward stewardship instead of ownership.
Mark 13
As we go through the thirteenth chapter of Mark, Pastor Doug takes us through the choices we make as we apply faith to the circumstances around us.
Mark 14 - Part I
As we look into the first part of Mark 14, Pastor Ben challenges us to look at our hearts when we give. We might not steal directly from a ministry, but do we hold on to our time, talent, and treasure when God is calling us to be more generous?
Mark 14 - Part II
As we begin to get to the end of Jesus's life on Earth, Pastor Doug shows that the lives of the disciples were turning upside down. Through chaotic times in our lives, we need to remember that our Lord is not only in control, but has also planned out everything we see going on around us.
Mark 15
As we look into the last moments of the ministry of Jesus, we are reminded how He knows the depth of the human condition. As the weight of sin's history is placed on him, He cries out to the Father, and even the Roman centurion is moved. Are we living our lives to show outsiders the perfection and love of the Father, as well?
Mark 16
As we wrap up Mark's gospel of Christ, Pastor Doug shows that after Jesus's death on the cross, He still had to conquer death in order to defeat sin. Because the resurrection can be hard to believe, we look into some of the things people say instead of believing.