Bringing Blessing
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.
Don’t Start with You. Do Start with God.
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
In God We Trust
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
Dad’s Seat at the Table
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
Going to Work with our Heavenly Father
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
God the Father and God the Son
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.
What’s the importance of referring to God as Father?
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.
What’s the difference between tolerance and repentance?
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.
How can we take God seriously and not ourselves?
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.
Does God Reach Down to Us or Do We Reach Up to Him?
In church history there are, generally speaking, two broad categories into which various answers to these questions fall. Synergism is the belief that, in varying degrees depending upon who is advocating this position, God and man work together in the process of justification. Conversely, monergism is the belief that God alone works for our justification, … Read more
God the Father Lives with You
Romans 8:12-17 – So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For all who are led by the Spirit of God … Read more
Is God too gracious?
This funny clip from a recent sermon in Romans gives a list of many things we add to the Gospel that God never required of us as well as the story of an old friend of Pastor Mark’s who abused grace by trying to find verses to justify adultery.