This week's sermon will launch a new sermon series entitled Portraits of the Christ. Each week (with a break on Memorial Day Weekend), we will take a deep dive into one of the Gospels to look at the unique way each writer presents the life and ministry of Jesus.  Though all Gospels share some material, each Gospel writer also offers his own take on this teacher/healer/miracle worker from Nazareth named Jesus.

 

This week, we'll start with the Gospel of Mark, partly because it's my favorite, but also because it's particularly relevant to our world's circumstances. 

In their book, Preaching Mark in Two Voices, scholars Brian Blount and Gary Charles note, "Mark was written principally for a people caught up in, and spiritually burdened by, social and political storms. Mark's Gospel offers much more than a Jesus intended to soothe and mend the troubled soul; here is a Jesus caught up in the troubles and turmoil of a tormented world."

 

I think we know a bit about that kind of a world, don't you?

 

These sermons will be intentionally substantive with a higher teaching component. Come, learn, grow, be challenged, and bring a friend.

 

See you Sunday,