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Mark places Jesus' trial before the Sanhedrin between two betrayals — Judas before it, Peter denying him during it — so that the Lord stands surrounded by false witnesses while being the one true and faithful witness in the room. The whole Gospel has been building to a single question: who is this man? The religious leaders convene an illegal, predetermined trial, but their fabricated testimony co...

Mark 14:43-52 presents one of the loneliest moments in all of Scripture. In the garden, when Jesus is seized, the disciples who promised loyalty scatter into the darkness, and even the unnamed young man flees, leaving everything behind. The scene strips away every illusion of human faithfulness. The Shepherd stands abandoned by His flock, facing betrayal, violence, and the cross alone. Yet this is...

Mark 14:27–42 sets two truths side by side. Before any disciple fails, Jesus promises to go ahead of them to Galilee after He rises—grace that runs ahead of failure and outlasts it. Then in Gethsemane, the one man who will not fall away wrestles in prayer while those who swore loyalty fall asleep. The contrast is the point: we are kept not by the strength of our resolve but by the faithfulness of...

In Mark 14:10–26, the institution of the Lord's Supper is deliberately framed by treachery and failure. Mark opens with Judas slipping away to bargain with the chief priests (vv. 10–11) and closes on the road to Gethsemane, where Jesus has just warned that every man at the table will fall away. Between those bookends sits the meal itself—the Passover prepared, the betrayer exposed ("one of you wil...

In Mark 14:1-9, a woman pours out perfume worth a year's wages on Jesus, and the room calls it waste. He calls it beautiful. This Sunday we'll sit with what extravagant devotion actually looks like — and why the cost is the point, not the problem.

Most people say they believe Jesus is coming back, yet for many that belief changes very little about how they live. We become consumed with temporary things, like travelers distracted by airport shops while forgetting the flight home. In Mark 13, Jesus confronts that drift. He prepares His disciples not only for the destruction of the temple, but for the certainty of His return. As He points to t...

Listen to Part 2 of our sermon on the Olivet Discourse

n Gospel of Mark 13, Jesus sits opposite the temple and tells His disciples something unthinkable: the massive stones of Herod’s Temple would one day be torn down until not one remained upon another. For the Jewish people, the temple was the center of worship, identity, and national hope. Yet Jesus reminds us that even the grandest structures of this world are temporary. His words were literally f...

When was the last time you did something to be seen? Maybe it was a post carefully crafted to present the best version of yourself, a story that subtly elevated your image, or even an act of service done with an eye toward recognition. There’s something in all of us that longs to be noticed, to earn approval, to matter in the eyes of others. But living this way is exhausting. Constantly curating a...

Jesus has answered question after question from His critics, and now He turns to ask a question of His own. Still in the temple on Tuesday before the cross, He addresses the issue of His identity as the Messiah. The religious leaders have missed it because they reduced the Messiah to something smaller than He truly is. They were half right—but completely wrong. They knew the Messiah would come fro...

This passage from Mark 12 presents a sobering reversal that strikes at the heart of religious complacency: a scribe begins by testing Jesus’s orthodoxy but ends by being weighed in the scales of the Kingdom himself. The scribe’s question regarding the prōtos —the first or most important commandment—uncovers a man who is biblically literate and intellectually convinced, yet stands in a precarious p...

In Mark 12:13-17 , Jesus is confronted by an unlikely alliance of Pharisees and Herodians — two groups who despised each other but united in opposition to Him. The Pharisees represented a false submission to God while rejecting earthly authority, and the Herodians represented the opposite: a rejection of God while clinging to earthly power. Together they set a trap, asking whether it was lawful to...

Easter Sunday at Redemption Hill Church covering Mark 12:18-27.

The passage paints a striking picture of injustice to expose a deeper spiritual truth. A landowner provides everything needed for a flourishing vineyard, yet when he sends servants to collect what is rightfully his, the tenants beat, shame, and kill them. This parable, drawn from Mark 12 and rooted in imagery from Isaiah 5, reflects God’s relationship with His people. He is the generous owner, and...

Have you ever had a moment where you thought, “Just who do they think they are?” That instinctive resistance to authority runs deep in all of us. It’s easy to laugh at it in everyday situations, but beneath the surface is something more serious—a desire to be our own authority. That same struggle is at the heart of Mark 11:27–33 . When Jesus returns to the temple after confronting its corruption,...

What does a tree and a temple have to do with one another? Listen to learn more.

While history remembers the grand triumphs of Caesar and Alexander—conquerors who entered cities in gold chariots with chained enemies in their wake—the Scriptures present a different kind of King. When Jesus approached Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, He wasn't looking for a military spectacle, but the fulfillment of an ancient messianic thread. From the prophecy of Jacob in Genesis to the hum...

Mark 10:46 picks up with Jesus passing by the ancient city of Jericho, surrounded by a large group of disciples. He is roughly 15-18 miles away from his final destination, Jerusalem—it is a journey that will be both physically strenuous and spiritually heavy as he approaches the cross. Yet, before He sets off on this final leg, Jesus makes one last stop to add a final disciple. This individual, Bl...

The Servant Savior Mark 10:32–45 reveals a repeated pattern that appears each time Jesus predicts His death: Jesus declares His plan, the disciples respond with pride, and Jesus redirects them to the true path of discipleship. In this third prediction, Jesus gives the most detailed description yet—He will be handed over, condemned, mocked, flogged, killed, and after three days rise again. This suf...

In the Gospels, we find a haunting contrast between the children who come to Jesus empty-handed and leave blessed, and the rich young ruler who arrives with hands full of morality and wealth only to walk away empty. This is the only story in the New Testament where someone sincerely approaches Jesus with a spiritual need but leaves in a worse state than they arrived. It serves as a vivid illustrat...

Imagine standing in the crowd that day—heat pressing in, people jostling around you, your toddlers tugging at your legs. You’re not there for a conversation or because you think you have anything impressive to offer. You’re just hoping Jesus might lay His hands on your children and bless them. But just as you approach, a disciple stops you cold and tells you to leave. In that moment it becomes pai...

Divorce has touched nearly all of us in some way, and it carries real pain, loss, and long-lasting wounds. Jesus does not speak here to shame or condemn, but to reorient our understanding of marriage around God’s good design—so that married people pursue faithfulness, unmarried people understand the weight and beauty of marriage, and all of us learn to honor what God has created. The Pharisees app...

We are refocusing ourselves on our mission as a church. Listen as Joe refocuses on what it looks like to be sent as God's church to carry his gospel to the world.

We are refocusing ourselves on our mission as a church. Listen as Joe refocuses on what it looks like to belong to a body from Ephesians 4.

We are refocusing ourselves on our mission as a church. Listen as Rob refocuses on what it looks like to behold the gospel from Isaiah 6.