Rev. Dr. Les Martin Pentecost +26 2024Rev. Dr. Les MartinDaniel 12, Psalm 16, Hebrews 10:31-39, Mark 13:14-23 We have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and we have done those things which we ought not to have done; and apart from your grace, there is no health in us. + In the Name of the Living God: the…
A circle of friends on pilgrimage for the love of God
A circle of friends on pilgrimage for the love of God
Sermons on Mark
Pentecost +25 2024Rev. Doug Floyd1 Kings 17:8-16, Psalm 146, Hebrews 9:24-28, Mark 12:38-44 Jesus is teaching in the Temple. He is engaging with Sadducees, Scribes, and his disciples. He sits down near the offering box and is watching people go into the Temple. Many fine people with long robes walk past and fill the treasury with large sums of money. If we…
Pentecost +23 2024 Rev. Doug FloydIsaiah 59:9-20, Psalm 13, Hebrews 5:11-6:12, Mark 10:46-52 …justice is far from us,and righteousness does not overtake us;we hope for light, and behold, darkness,and for brightness, but we walk in gloom.10 We grope for the wall like the blind;we grope like those who have no eyes;we stumble at noon as in the twilight,among those in full vigor we are…
Rev. Doug Floyd Pentecost +18 2024 RevisionRev. Doug FloydMark 9:30-37 35 And 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.” 36 And he took a child and put him in the midst of them, and taking him in his arms, he said to them, 37 “Whoever…
Rev. Dr. Les Martin Pentecost +17 2024Rev. Dr. Les MartinMark 9:14-29 “I believe, help my unbelief!”+ In the name of the Living God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Introduction Jesus, Peter, James and John have just been on the mountain. There, Jesus had been transfigured in glory, and conferred with Moses and Elijah, who are the fullness of…
Rev. Dr. Les Martin Pentecost +6 2024Rev. Dr. Les MartinDeuteronomy 15:7–11, Psalm 112, 2 Corinthians 8:1–15, Mark 5:22–24, 35b–43 I am resolved to know nothing among you, but Christ Jesus and him crucified in the name of the living God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen. Well, if it was late autumn, instead of late June, I would look at these readings…
Easter 4 2024Rev. Doug FloydActs 4:23-37 Peter and John have been released by the Sanhedrin. They return to the community of believers in Jerusalem. The whole community joins together in prayer, asking God for boldness in proclaiming the Gospel and God’s blessing to stretch out His hand to heal and reveal signs and wonders that glorify His name. As they are praying,…
Easter 2024Rev. Dr. Les MartinMark 16:1-8 In the name of the living God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. They were afraid. It doesn’t sound like much of an Easter message. The Gospel we have today is the traditional reading for Easter in the old western lectionary. But honestly, it just doesn’t seem to have much of an Easter…
Rev. Doug Floyd Palm SundayRev. Doug FloydMark 15:1-39 Today marks the beginning of Holy Week. The Gospel today is sort of an overture for the whole week. The lectionary gives us the option of reading a shorter reading that includes Mark 15:1-39. If we choose the longer reading, we begin in Mark 14 and continue through vs 47 of 15. This reading…
Lent 1 2024Rev. Dr. Les MartinMark 1:9-13 Did we in our own strength confide our striving would be losing.Were not the right man on our side,The man of God’s own choosingDost ask who that may be?Christ Jesus, it is he and he must win the battle. This year marks my 37th Lent since I became a practicing Christian. And if I’ve learned…