Heritage Sermons

Mark 9:2-13 | The Path | Trent Hunter What will sustain the church in the face of the worst hardship in this world? Worse than physical pain or suffering can be isolation and social rejection. It all comes with the territory of following Jesus. We don’t love it or long for it, but we do accept trouble as part of the path we’re on together. What will ready us for the worst? We find out on a diversi...

Mark 8:27-9:1 | The Path | Trent Hunter With this sermon we come to the heart of the book, not only in terms of its central themes of the cross and discipleship, but the literary hinge of the story. We have been following Jesus all over the place at a rapid pace. Here the story slows to a walk and confronts us with a question and a call that none of us can escape.

Mark 8:1-26 | The Path | Trent Hunter Have you ever had a dream that kept coming back, but maybe with some of the details rearranged? That’s what this passage is like for us and it’s what this account must have been like for the disciples. We have another feeding, another boat scene, another conversation about bread, and another healing that involves spit. We’re going to handle it all in one sermo...

Mark 7:24-37 | The Path | Trent Hunter This passage is utterly perplexing. Jesus travels to a new region but hides. Jesus answers a woman with a derogatory comment. Jesus performs a strange ritual with spit before healing a man. Jesus, again, tells people not to speak of him and they tell everyone. Jesus’ actions and intentions seem to conflict, and both run counter to our own human expectations f...

Mark 7:1-23 | The Path | Trent Hunter With this sermon we return to our series through the Gospel according to Mark. We drop in at a point of increasing conflict between Jesus and the Pharisees, between Jesus and Jerusalem. What is at the heart of the conflict that will lead ultimately to Jesus’ crucifixion? The answer to that question may be the start of your own way to salvation.

Daniel 4 | A Tale of Two Kingdoms | Abe Stratton

Daniel 3 | A Tale of Two Kingdoms | Abe Stratton

Daniel 2 | A Tale of Two Kingdoms | Abe Stratton

Daniel 1 | A Tale of Two Kingdoms | Abe Stratton

Mark 6:45-56 | The Path | Trent Hunter The winds are blowing hard against the church. They’re against us and they are relentless. We live in difficult times, yes, but there is no reason for us to lose heart. We’ll find out why on a boat ride with Jesus’ disciples this Lord’s Day.

Mark 6:31-44 | The Path | Trent Hunter The world is a hungry place. Not just hungry for food, but hungry for something else. We just don’t know what it is. The world is a wilderness and that’s one reason why Jesus sets the stage for his next miracle with a hungry crowd in the wilderness. There, Jesus will teach us concerning our real hunger and his willingness and ability to meet it.

Mark 6:7-30 | The Path | Trent Hunter Jesus has inspired us with his teaching and works. He has instructed us concerning the inevitably of hard ground but also good soil that bears incredible fruit. We have a promising mission. But there is another point to make concerning our call to discipleship and disciple making: the cost. Mark will get this across to us in a way that is both round-about and...

Mark 6:1-6 | The Path | Trent Hunter It’s usually an exciting thing to go home. A college graduate would be celebrated at home, and her achievements bragged on. That is not the case for Jesus on the occasion of his homecoming. He’s been plenty successful, but he is not the pride of his town. As always, there’s a lesson for those who follow Jesus.

Mark 5:21-43 | The Path | Trent Hunter Sometimes the author of a Bible book leaves a phrase untranslated. In this text, Mark quotes Jesus’ Aramaic words, “Talitha cumi.” Jesus said those two words to a twelve-year-old dead girl. They must have left an impression on Peter, who relayed them later to Mark. Let’s pray for these words to leave an impression on us as well.

Mark 5:1-20 | The Path | Trent Hunter This week we come to a second in a series of three encounters with Jesus between desperate people and the only one who can deliver us from our trouble.

Mark 4:35-41 | The Path | Trent Hunter Some passages are almost too familiar. Christian or not, churchgoer or not, you know about how Jesus stills the storm. It’s not a terribly surprising story, unless you were in that boat with Jesus. But there is a surprise here that you are not expecting.

Mark 4:21-34 | The Path | Trent Hunter Listen in to hear how you can perceive the invisible kingdom of God.

Mark 4:1-20 | The Path | Trent Hunter Jesus is a good teacher, right? Then why so many diverse responses to his teaching? Shouldn’t he be the most persuasive, most compelling, and most agreeable preacher ever? In Mark’s gospel we find a host of responses to Jesus. We find the same in our own day. We find the same in our own hearts! In Mark 4:1–20, Jesus takes up the task of explaining why the Word...

Mark 3:7-35 | The Path | Trent Hunter Jesus’ unique authority made for his growing fame. Jesus’ concerning behavior raised concerns. Now we get to find out what it’s like to hitch ourselves to him. Since the first century, opposition to Jesus has taken many forms. In this sermon we see four problems that come with following Jesus. What makes following Jesus worth it?

Mark 2:13-3:6 | The Path | Trent Hunter Jesus’ teaching raised all kinds of questions, specifically about his authority, which we explored last time. But his behavior raised all kinds of concerns. In this sermon we’re going to read a passage that might make us a little uneasy about Jesus. But my hope is that it will make us uneasy about ourselves, to be concerned about our concerns, and thankful t...

Psalm 46 | COVID-19 | Trent Hunter Think for a moment about a worst case scenario. Now think of another. Where do we go for help at such a time? What should we do when the world and life unravels? The Scriptures give us an answer for that in Psalm 46, which will be the text for Easter sermon. What about Easter? Read that Psalm and ask yourself how any of that can be true apart from the resurrectio...

Mark 1:16-2:12 | The Path | Trent Hunter Authority is a topic of daily conversation right now. Federal authorities are making decisions, and local authorities are doing things. There are plenty of good decisions being made. But it seems there are also governments in other lands gathering more authority to themselves than is safe. Listen ins as we explore the authority of Jesus.

Mark 1:1-15 | The Path | Trent Hunter With this sermon we begin our new series through the gospel according to Mark. On the one hand, this is a new series from a book in the New Testament. On the other hand, we are picking up where we left off at the end of the book of Exodus. Much has transpired in the history of God’s plan to save, but it is all one story.

Exodus 25-40 | Exodus: The Story of How We Come to Know God | Trent Hunter Social distance is all the rage. It should be, and I don’t need to get into that. None of us like it. But in our relationship with God, spiritual distance is the way things begin, and it’s our doing. He is holy and we are sinful. Whatever we might want to say about that, it’s not him; it’s us. What can be done about it? Sur...

Exodus 16-24 | Exodus: The Story of How We Come to Know God | Trent Hunter God saved us from bondage, but is that all he has in mind for us? Is God’s whole intention simply to get us out of the trouble of our sin and out of trouble with him? No, he has something much greater for us. God delivers us from something, and for something. He delivers us from servitude and into his service. Or, in other...