Sermons on Christian Living
Opening Prayer and Scripture Reading With your copy of the scriptures still in hand, we’re gonna read from chapter 12 of the gospel of Mark. We continue in our series through Mark’s gospel. Before we hear the word read, let’s ask once more for the Lord to bless our time together and we do so,…
Take your Bibles now and turn to Mark, chapter 10. Mark, chapter 10. We return to Mark this morning. Gospel of Mark, chapter 10, starting in verse 1. It says this, and he left there and went to the region of Judah and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again. And again, as…
Take your Bible’s now in turn, if you would, to the New Testament reading this morning, 1 Corinthians chapter 10. 1 Corinthians 10, starting at verse one. Once more, give your full attention. This is the word of God. The Lord says through the Apostle Paul, for I do not want you to be unaware,…
Heavenly Father, we once more thank you again that you have given us this written word that you have preserved and inscripturated down through time. Lord, we pray that you would illumine our minds and our hearts as we hear it expounded, Lord, as we hear your voice speaking through it. Lord, we pray that…
Take your copy of the Scriptures now back in hand and turn to the New Testament. We’re reading, continue on, John 16, that we started last week. But we’re reading the same passage, the first half now and then the first half in a moment. First John, I’m sorry, not first John, John 16, the…
We do welcome to the pulpit this morning, Reverend Steve Gonzalez. He’s a member of the Great Lakes Presbytery, our presbytery, and the PCA. He serves as pulpit supply in the OPC and the PCA. He was a full-time pulpit supply at an OPC church for a year and a half recently. He’s the manager…
In our fallen nature, we want the crucified saviour without the cruciform life. But in our union with Christ, God has ordained that our path will be the path of his beloved son. If we are his and he is ours, our lives will pattern his life: and that pattern is suffering and then glory, the cross before the crown.
Mark is impressing upon us in this passage, that the crowd is made up of two different groups of people. Those of Israel, and those who are far-away ones. In this sermon, Pastor Tony unpacks Christ’s costly compassion on the 4,000. Christ has this mixed crowd–Jew and Gentile–recline at a wilderness table together, and satisfies…
We’ll finish up the section from last week before we return to the gospel of Mark. There’s some significant things coming up in the gospel of Mark that we want to give attention to, but we’ll finish up this wonderful passage regarding the fear and the anxiety and the symptoms of those things and the…
Though this Syrophoenician woman thought herself of a low estate–and those around her would’ve agreed, Christ deems her worthy, not of dog food, but of true spiritual meat: faith. Here we see the heart of Christ as he reaches out to those of low conditions.