Sound & Season

Sound & Season has returned! We hope that you will join us for this unique season as we prepare our hearts for the coming of Christmas. All of the daily scriptures, reflections, and prayers can be found on our Advent website. ----- “Sound & Season” is written & narrated by Jeffrey Heine Engineering by Joel Blount Production by Jeffrey Heine & Jonathan Haas Music by Chad Lawson   --...

Mark 16:1-8 1When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. 2And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. 3And they were saying to one another, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?" 4And looking up, they saw that the stone had been roll...

Mark 15:1-47 1And as soon as it was morning, the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council. And they bound Jesus and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate. 2And Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" And he answered him, "You have said so."  3And the chief priests accused him of many things. 4And Pilate again asked him, "Have you no answ...

Mark 14:53-72 53And they led Jesus to the high priest. And all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes came together. 54And Peter had followed him at a distance, right into the courtyard of the high priest. And he was sitting with the guards and warming himself at the fire. 55Now the chief priests and the whole council were seeking testimony against Jesus to put him to death, but they fou...

Mark 14:43-52 43And immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders. 44Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, "The one I will kiss is the man. Seize him and lead him away under guard." 45And when he came, he went up to him at once and said, "Rabbi!" And he kissed him....

Mark 14:26-42 26And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. 27And Jesus said to them, "You will all fall away, for it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.'28But after I am raised up, I will go before you to Galilee."  29Peter said to him, "Even though they all fall away, I will not." 30And Jesus said to him, "Truly, I tell you, this ver...

Mark 14:12-25 12And on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the Passover lamb, his disciples said to him, "Where will you have us go and prepare for you to eat the Passover?" 13And he sent two of his disciples and said to them, "Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him,  14and wherever he enters, say to the master of the house, 'The Teacher s...

Mark 14:1-11 1It was now two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest him by stealth and kill him, 2for they said, "Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar from the people."  3And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of oin...

Mark 13:24-37 24"But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, 25and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.  26And then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory.  27And then he will send out the angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of...

Mark 13:1-23 1And as he came out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, "Look, Teacher, what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings!" 2And Jesus said to him, "Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down." 3And as he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him pri...

Mark 12:28-44 28And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, "Which commandment is the most important of all?" 29Jesus answered, "The most important is, 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.  30And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with a...

Mark 12:13-27 13And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and some of the Herodians, to trap him in his talk. 14And they came and said to him, "Teacher, we know that you are true and do not care about anyone's opinion. For you are not swayed by appearances, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not? Should we pay them, or should we not?" 15But, knowing their hypo...

Mark 12:1-12 1And he began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenants and went into another country.  2When the season came, he sent a servant to the tenants to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.  3And they took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.  4Again he...

Mark 11:20-33 20As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away to its roots. 21And Peter remembered and said to him, "Rabbi, look! The fig tree that you cursed has withered." 22And Jesus answered them, "Have faith in God.  23Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be taken up and thrown into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he sa...

 Mark 11:1-19 1Now when they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples 2and said to them, "Go into the village in front of you, and immediately as you enter it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it.  3If anyone says to you, 'Why are you doing this?' say, 'The Lord has need of it and will send i...

Mark 10:32-52 32And they were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them. And they were amazed, and those who followed were afraid. And taking the twelve again, he began to tell them what was to happen to him, 33saying, "See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death...

Mark 10:17-31 17And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?" 18And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.  19You know the commandments: 'Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and moth...

Mark 10:1-16 1And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again. And again, as was his custom, he taught them.  2And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?" 3He answered them, "What did Moses command you?"  4They said, "Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send he...

Mark 8:33-50 33And they came to Capernaum. And when he was in the house he asked them, "What were you discussing on the way?"34But they kept silent, for on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest. 35And he sat down and called the twelve. And he said to them, "If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all."  36And he took a child and put him in the...

Mark 9:14-32 14And when they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd around them, and scribes arguing with them. 15And immediately all the crowd, when they saw him, were greatly amazed and ran up to him and greeted him. 16And he asked them, "What are you arguing about with them?"  17And someone from the crowd answered him, "Teacher, I brought my son to you, for he has a spirit that makes him...

Mark 9:1-13 1And he said to them, "Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God after it has come with power." 2And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, 3and his clothes became radiant, intensely white, as no one on earth could...

Mark 8:22-38 22And they came to Bethsaida. And some people brought to him a blind man and begged him to touch him. 23And he took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village, and when he had spit on his eyes and laid his hands on him, he asked him, "Do you see anything?"  24And he looked up and said, "I see people, but they look like trees, walking." 25Then Jesus laid his hands on his...

Mark 8:1-21 1In those days, when again a great crowd had gathered, and they had nothing to eat, he called his disciples to him and said to them, 2"I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat.  3And if I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the way. And some of them have come from far away."  4And his disciples answered h...

Mark 7:24-37 24And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered a house and did not want anyone to know, yet he could not be hidden. 25But immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell down at his feet. 26Now the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophoenician by birth. And she begged him to cast the demon out of her daugh...

Mark 7:14-23 14And he called the people to him again and said to them, "Hear me, all of you, and understand:  15There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him."  17And when he had entered the house and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable. 18And he said to them, "Then are you also without u...