Service Folder📖🔍 Isaiah 29:18-19 ▪ 2 Corinthians 3:4-11 ▪ ✞ Mark 7:31-38 A man who was deaf and therefore also had an impediment in his speech was brought to Jesus (Mark 7:31–37). Jesus put His fingers into the man’s ears, spat and touched his tongue; and sighed “Ephphatha” opening the man’s ears, and loosening his tongue to speak plainly as Isaiah prophesied…
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Sermons on Mark
Theme: Providence Service Folder📖🔍 I Kings 17:8-16 ▪ Romans 6:19-23 ▪ ✞ Mark 8:1-9 God kept his Word through the prophet Elijah to provide for a widow and her son when all seemed hopeless. (In Kings 17:8-16) That Word is fulfilled in the Word made flesh, Jesus, who had compassion on a crowd of 4000 and provided bread for them in the…
Service Folder Easter is the Christian Church’s High Feast. Sunday’s lessons all highlight the reason for it – the resurrection of Jesus from the dead – Joshua 3:1, 9-17: As the Ark led the children of Israel through the Jordan River on dry land, the Risen Jesus leads us through death to the resurrection of the dead and eternal life. –…
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Service Folder (doc) Service Folder (pdf) Jesus foretells His own betrayal, death, and resurrection in today’s text (Mark 8:31–9:1). This shows us that the way of salvation comes only through the path the cross. It also means Jesus’ followers, baptized into Him, also have crosses. Our crosses don’t save us. Jesus’ cross does. Our crosses lead us back to our baptisms, where…
Service Folder Tonight we continue with our Lenten Series For Us. We talked about angels at Lent Vespers 1. Tonight we talk about the darker side of angels: the fallen angels who rebelled against God with their leader, the devil. We will see how God delivered a man possessed by a demon and how he has delivered you and me from the…
Service Folder Jesus talks all about seeking us in this week’s lessons. He does not wait passively for us to come to Him; nor does He act out of selfish gain. Praying, visiting, preaching – In all these things, Jesus is for us. This work is often overlooked because it is so ordinary. He comes in ordinary-sounding words to do his extraordinary…