Family Church PC Podcast

In this sermon, Pastor Jim explores Mark 13, focusing on Jesus' Olivet discourse where He prophesies future events, including the destruction of the Jerusalem temple and His second coming. The pastor emphasizes two core beliefs Christians should hold: Jesus is definitely coming again, and believers should live in a state of readiness for His return. The sermon examines how Jesus accurately predict...

In this sermon, Pastor Jim explores Mark 12, focusing on Jesus' response to a scribe's question about the most important commandment. Jesus identifies loving God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength as the greatest commandment, followed by loving your neighbor as yourself. These two commandments form the foundation from which all other laws and prophetic words flow. The sermon contrasts t...

In this sermon from Mark 12:18-27, Pastor Jim addresses the question of life after death by examining Jesus' interaction with the Sadducees. The Sadducees, who denied the resurrection, attempted to trap Jesus with a hypothetical scenario about a woman who had been married to seven brothers. Jesus responded by correcting their understanding, stating they were wrong because they knew neither the Scr...

In this sermon based on Mark 12:13-17, Pastor Jim explores Jesus' encounter with the Pharisees and Herodians, who aimed to trap him with a question about paying taxes to Caesar. Jesus cleverly asks for a coin and replies, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." The sermon highlights our dual citizenship as believers—we have duties to earthly authoriti...

In this sermon, Pastor Jim explores Jesus' Parable of the Wicked Tenants from Mark 12:1-12. The parable describes a landowner (representing God) who plants a vineyard (representing Israel), leases it to tenants (representing religious leaders), and sends servants (representing prophets) to collect his share of the fruit. When the tenants beat and kill the servants, the owner sends his beloved son...

In this sermon, Pastor Jim explores Mark 11, focusing on Jesus' actions during Passion Week. He examines how Jesus confronted hypocrisy in the temple and cursed a fruitless fig tree as metaphors for exposing religious pretense. The sermon emphasizes that true faith produces visible fruit in believers' lives, contrasting with the religious leaders who maintained appearances without genuine devotion...

In this sermon from Mark 11:1-11, Pastor Jim explores Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem. He highlights five key aspects of Jesus' character: His courageous obedience in facing the cross, His divine knowledge of all things, His genuine humility in riding a donkey, His profound worthiness of praise, and His loving compassion as He wept over Jerusalem. The sermon emphasizes that Jesus entered Jer...

In this sermon from Mark 10:46-52, Pastor Brad explores the story of blind Bartimaeus who calls out to Jesus for healing. The message highlights three key statements about Jesus: He responds to those who call on Him for help, He sometimes restores and always redeems what is broken, and He reshapes life, purpose, and expectations. The sermon draws parallels between Bartimaeus's physical healing and...

In this sermon from Mark 10:32-45, Pastor Brad explores Jesus' journey to Jerusalem and his teaching on servant leadership. As Jesus walks ahead of his disciples toward his crucifixion, James and John make a self-centered request to sit at Jesus' right and left hand in his glory. Jesus uses this moment to teach all the disciples that true greatness in his kingdom comes through service and sacrific...

The sermon focuses on Mark 10, discussing two contrasting encounters: Jesus' welcoming of children and the encounter with the rich young ruler. Jesus emphasizes that the kingdom of God belongs to those with childlike faith - humble, trusting, and dependent. The story of the rich young ruler demonstrates that salvation is impossible through human effort alone, but possible through God. The sermon h...

This sermon highlights the biblical teaching on marriage and divorce from Mark 10, where Jesus answers the Pharisees' question about divorce. The pastor stresses that marriage is a sacred institution established by God, intended to be permanent between one man and one woman. While divorce is allowed in certain cases—such as adultery, abandonment by an unbeliever, and abuse—it is never God's ideal...

The sermon focuses on Jesus' teachings about greatness in God's kingdom, as found in Mark 9. Jesus explains that true greatness is reflected through humility, service to others, and love, contrary to worldly definitions of greatness through power, wealth, or status. The passage shows Jesus using a child as an object lesson to demonstrate that welcoming and caring for the least among us is equivale...

This sermon from Mark 9:14-29 explores the story of Jesus healing a demon-possessed boy after his disciples were unable to do so. The pastor contrasts the glorious scene of Jesus' Transfiguration with the suffering and chaos found at the bottom of the mountain, emphasizing that Jesus is Lord both in moments of glory and in our mess. The sermon focuses on three main characters: a desperate father s...

The sermon focuses on the Transfiguration of Jesus from Mark 9:1-13. Pastor Nathan Schneider explores three key aspects of Jesus' identity revealed in this passage: He is the radiance of God's glory, the authoritative Son of God, and the suffering Son of Man. The transfiguration event gave the disciples a glimpse of Jesus' divine nature and confirmed His identity as both fully God and fully man. P...

This sermon discusses the Protestant Reformation and the key differences between Protestant and Catholic beliefs, focusing on the Five Solas. The pastor then examines Mark 8 and Matthew 16, particularly Peter's confession of Christ and Jesus' response about building His church. The sermon explains the Protestant interpretation of these passages, emphasizing that the church is built on the confessi...

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This Mother's Day sermon focuses on a story from Mark 7:24-30 about a woman who approached Jesus seeking healing for her demon-possessed daughter. The pastor uses this narrative to highlight the valuable qualities of a godly mother: genuine faith, seeking Jesus on behalf of family, humility, spiritual discernment, and perseverance in prayer. The sermon emphasizes how this Gentile woman's great fai...

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Welcome to the family! You have a place here! Please let us know if you are watching our stream for the first time, if you have made a decision, or need prayer – text CONNECT to (941) 260-1395 or click here:  https://form.church/connection Click here if you would like to give online:  https://engage.suran.com/familychurchpc/     Music used with permission, CCLI License # 594759, Streaming Plus Lic...

The sermon focuses on the resurrection of Jesus Christ and its significance to Christian faith, using both the story of Lazarus and Paul's teachings in 1 Corinthians 15. The pastor emphasizes that Christ's resurrection is the cornerstone of Christian faith, without which preaching would be useless and faith would be futile. The message explores what it means to be saved and the promise of resurrec...

Holy Week marks the final days of Jesus's earthly ministry, beginning with His humble entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. Each day holds significant events and spiritual lessons, from cleansing the temple on Monday to His ultimate sacrifice on Friday. Through these events, Jesus demonstrated humility, prayer, faith, submission, and preparation. His journey culminated in the crucifixion, serving a...

The sermon focuses on the story from Mark 6:45-52 where Jesus walks on water to meet his disciples during a storm. After feeding the 5,000, Jesus sends his disciples ahead by boat while he goes to pray. When the disciples struggle against strong winds, Jesus walks on water to reach them. Initially terrified, thinking they saw a ghost, Jesus comforts them and reveals his divine nature through this...

The sermon focuses on the miraculous feeding of the 5,000 from Mark 6, connecting it to other miraculous feeding accounts in Scripture. The pastor emphasizes God's abundant provision and the importance of trusting faith, using the example of the young boy who offered his small lunch to Jesus. The message highlights how Jesus had compassion on the crowds despite His and the disciples' need for rest...

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