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The church concludes its series through the Gospel of Mark with Mark chapter 16, examining the empty tomb and the debated longer ending, along with background on Mark's authorship and the Greek biographical style of the Gospels.

Mark 15

Mark 13

Mark 12

Continuing the summer series through the Gospel of Mark, this message moves into Mark chapter 11 and discusses the recurring theme of the Messianic Secret, where Jesus heals and casts out demons yet tells people not to spread word of it.

Mark 10

Mark 9

Continuing the church's series through the Gospel of Mark, a guest speaker walks through the content-rich Mark chapter 8, beginning with Jesus' second feeding of a large crowd.

Continuing through the Gospel of Mark, this message focuses on Mark 7:24-30 and the Syrophoenician (Gentile) woman who persistently begs Jesus to free her demon-possessed daughter, holding her up as an aspirational example of faith.

Continuing through the Gospel of Mark, this message covers Mark 6:1-13, where Jesus is met with skepticism and rejection in his hometown of Nazareth before sending out the twelve disciples.

Continuing the series through the Gospel of Mark, this message examines the intertwined healing stories of Mark 5:21-43, where Jairus pleads for his dying daughter, arguing through Mark's chiastic structure that Jesus can heal and nothing is beyond him.

Continuing the Mark series, this message looks at Mark 4:35-41, where Jesus, after teaching from the boat, crosses the Sea of Galilee and calms the storm, reflecting on how he moved through life unhurried, "just as he was."

Continuing the Mark series, this message moves into Mark 4 and the parable of the sower, reflecting on how Jesus taught in parables and seemed comfortable with the disciples' misunderstanding and the ambiguity of his teaching.

Continuing the series through Mark, this message covers Mark 2:13-17, the calling of Levi the tax collector and Jesus eating with sinners, with context on how tax collectors extorted their neighbors under Roman occupation.

A guest speaker preaches from John 16:16-22, where Jesus tells his disciples "a little while, and you will see me," promising that their sorrow will be turned into joy that no one can take away, reflecting on the Apostle John's own hope amid suffering.

The opening of a chapter-by-chapter series through the Gospel of Mark, beginning with Mark 1, with extensive background on John Mark as the author writing from Peter's perspective and how the New Testament gospels were transmitted.

A guest speaker on the Sunday after Easter preaches from 1 Peter 1:3-9 on the living hope of the resurrection and faith refined through trials, recalling Peter's denial and restoration in John 21 as background to the letter's author.

An Easter Sunday message on the resurrection of Jesus, emphasizing that he truly died and rose bodily—flesh and bone, body and spirit—and that his resurrection was not for himself but to gather and restore his people.

A Palm Sunday message on Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem from Luke 19, tracing his journey from Galilee through the raising of Lazarus and Jericho as a growing crowd accompanies him toward Passover.

A late-Lent message on Romans 8:1-11, focusing on "there is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus," and on repentance as a joyful opportunity for God's redemption to reach new places.

A Lenten message on the healing of the man born blind in John 9, addressing the disciples' question of whose sin caused his blindness and Jesus' answer that it was not sin but an occasion for God's works to be displayed.

A third-Sunday-of-Lent message on Romans 5:1—"since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God"—unpacking Paul's argument from Abraham and reframing justification as how we make sense of and justify our existence before God.

A second-Sunday-of-Lent message on John 3:1-17 and Nicodemus coming to Jesus by night, exploring Jesus' teaching on being born again and reflecting on the temptation to earn God's approval through accomplishment.

A first-Sunday-of-Lent message on the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness (Matthew 4), framing Jesus as the fulfillment of Israel who resists the temptation to live off what he can make for himself, trusting instead that what God gives is better.

An Ash Wednesday message on Matthew 19, where Jesus welcomes the little children and then encounters the rich young man asking what he must do to have eternal life, illustrated by a story of subsistence farmers in Malawi and dependence on God.