Sermons on Trinity (Page 3)

Mark 13:24-37 KNOWING THE TIME As Jesus concludes his sermon to His disciples about “what will be the sign of His coming and of the end of the age” (Mt 24:3.Mk 13:4), He gets into His actual coming, the moment when He appears in “great power and glory.” He speaks about things happening to the sun, moon, and stars that we’ve never seen or heard of. But it wasn’t the first time this was spoken.  Through the prophet Isaiah – 700 years previously – God…

GOOD NEWS, WE’RE LIVING IN THE LAST DAYS Mark 13 is one long answer to a question. This is also true of Matthew 24. Same event. This was on Tuesday of the week that Jesus died on the cross. He had just left the temple for the last time. While He thought about these things, Jesus spoke of how the temple would be utterly destroyed one day. This made the disciples think of the end of the world. They asked…

WHAT WE DO AFFECTS OTHERS, AND IT’S ABOUT ETERNITY Sermon Text, St. Mark 9:42-50 (ESV). “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea. And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the…

Mark 9:33-41 THE WAY OF TRUTH IS ALSO THE WAY OF LOVE The way to eternal life is the way of truth. Jesus said not only “I Am the Way” but also “I Am the Truth,” and: “No one comes to the Father except through Me” (Jn 14:6). The way to come to the Father, to eternal life, is only through Jesus. The truth is the narrow path to eternal life. Believing the truth gets you to heaven. We’re laser-focused…

WHAT ABOUT WHEN MY FAITH FEELS WEAK? Sermon Text, St. Mark 9:14-29 (ESV).  14 And when they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd around them, and scribes arguing with them. 15 And immediately all the crowd, when they saw him, were greatly amazed and ran up to Him and greeted Him. 16 And He asked them, “What are you arguing about with them?” 17 And someone from the crowd answered Him, “Teacher, I brought my son to You, for he has a spirit that makes him mute. 18 And whenever…

THE LORD TAKES CARE OF YOU, EVEN WHEN YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND Sermon Text, St. Mark 8:1-21. 1 In those days, the multitude being very great and having nothing to eat, Jesus called His disciples to Him and said to them, 2 “I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now continued with Me three days and have nothing to eat. 3 And if I send them away hungry to their own houses, they will faint on the way; for…

HE SPEAKS HIS “EPHPHATHA” – BE OPENED! – TO YOU The book of the prophet Isaiah is a guide to seeing how it’s true that Jesus is the Christ, the promised Messiah. When people questioned whether Jesus was who He claimed to be, often He pointed them to something Isaiah said as a prophecy, a promise from God, about what the Christ would do. Jesus would say: “Look at my works. See if they are the works that Isaiah said…

WHAT’S INSIDE In Genesis 6, it says that “the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually” (Gen 6:5). This is right before God declared that He would send a flood to destroy life on the earth (with the exception of Noah and family). In case we think that this universal evil in people only applied to that generation destroyed by the…

FALSE DOCTRINE PRODUCES EMPTY WORSHIP Sermon Text, St. Mark 7:1-13. 1 Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes came together to Him, having come from Jerusalem. 2 Now when they saw some of His disciples eat bread with defiled, that is, with unwashed hands, they found fault. 3 For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands in a special way, holding the tradition of the elders. 4 When they come from the…