We were made by God to mirror Him. When we do not mirror him, we mirror someone else. This simple fact explains much of our fascination with celebrities, social media, and an increasingly unhealthy, unhappy, and unholy world. Dr. Drew Pinsky is a regular television expert on human addiction, behavior, and culture. Some years ago, … Read more
Genesis 8:20-21a – Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, … Read more
Christus Victor From video games to blockbuster movies and bigger than life sporting events, people never grow weary of heroes who rise up to lead their team to victory. Something in us wants to see someone step onto the field of battle to defeat a foe so that everyone on their side of the fight … Read more
In this Real Men talk based in Genesis 1:1-25, Pastor Mark preaches on the idea of God’s blessings woven throughout the book of Genesis, helping us to focus on our own blessings and how we can, in turn, bless others.
Genesis 1:1 – “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” If you stacked up all the books written in the history of the world as a mountain and had to pick a handful to rest as the summit, you’d have to include the book of Genesis. In its pages we encounter God … Read more
James 5:5 – You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. Exactly 160 years ago to the date I preached the sermon this past weekend, Nov. 13, 1861, a man named Rev. M.R. Watkinson wrote a letter that changed history. During the Civil War, … Read more
James 4:4-5 – You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to … Read more
1 Corinthians 12:7 – To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. My mom and dad got married and had me, the first of five kids, at a young age. Like Jesus, my dad was named Joseph and worked a job swinging a hammer to feed his family. My dad … Read more
This topical sermon for Father’s Day is based in Mark and John’s Gospels as Pastor Mark preaches on the special relationship between God the Father and God the Son.
In this clip from Pray Like Jesus, Pastor Mark talks about the fact that God shares his title with earthly fathers and that fathers have a great duty to reflect God to their kids.
Our world emphasizes tolerance but a relationship with Jesus emphasizes repentance. This clip from Pray Like Jesus shows the difference between the two and how repentance truly is more loving than tolerance.
In this hilarious clip from the Pray Like Jesus series, Pastor Mark points out ridiculousness and hypocrisy of religion and spirituality and the fact that we should always take God seriously and not take ourselves too seriously.