March 2024

Sermon for the Fifth Sunday in Lent

March 17, 2024. Texts: Daniel 12:1-3; Psalm 119:9-16; Mark Chapters 12 & 13. To read the Gospel click this link to Biblegateway.com. You would think that Jesus might have spent his last days in quiet contemplation. The cross loomed ahead and going there would take everything he had; all his strength clear to his last

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Sermon for the Fourth Sunday in Lent

March 10, 2024. Texts: Micah 7:1-4; Psalm 107:1-3, 17-22; Mark Chapter 11. To read Mark Chapter 11, click this link from Biblegateway.com It’s a little weird to be reading the story of Jesus entering Jerusalem today. We usually read it the Sunday before Easter. We’re two weeks out from that and perhaps you aren’t quite

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Sermon for the Second Sunday in Lent

February 25, 2024. Texts:  Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16; Psalm 22:23-31; Mark 8:22 – 9:50 To read this passage online click this link to Biblegateway.com Familiar teachings from Mark 8 and 9 come up later this year. Consider instead, these things… Observations in Mark’s Gospel – Generations There was the Greatest Generation, the Silent generation, the Baby

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