Oculi
3rd Sunday in Lent – 2024
“COME OUT, UNCLEAN SPIRIT!” Sermon Text, St. Mark 5:1-20. Then they came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gadarenes. And when He had come out of the boat, immediately there met Him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no one could bind him, not even with chains, because he had often been bound with shackles and chains. And the chains had been pulled apart by him,…
Mid Week Lent 2 – 2024
“ARE YOU THE CHRIST?” – “I AM” Sermon Text, St. Mark 14:60-65. And the high priest stood up in the midst and asked Jesus, saying, “Do You answer nothing? What is it these men testify against You?” But He kept silent and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked Him, saying to Him, “Are You the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?” Jesus said, “I am. And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power, and…
Lent 2 – 2024
KEEP PRAYING Sermon Text, St. Mark 7:24-30. From there [Jesus] arose and went to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And He entered a house and wanted no one to know it, but He could not be hidden. For a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit heard about Him, and she came and fell at His feet. The woman was a Greek, a Syro-Phoenician by birth, and she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her daughter. But Jesus said to her,…
Mid Week Lent 1 – 2024
Sermon Text: Mark: 14:46-54
Lent 1 – 2024
YOU ARE THE CHRIST”: THE BEGINNING OF TAKING UP THE CROSS Sermon Text, St. Mark 8:27-38. Now Jesus and His disciples went out to the towns of Caesarea Philippi; and on the road He asked His disciples, saying to them, “Who do men say that I am?” So they answered, “John the Baptist; but some say, Elijah; and others, one of the prophets.” He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered and said to Him, “You are the Christ.” Then…
Ash Wednesday – 2024
LIKE MARY AND LIKE JUDAS Sermon Text, St. Mark 14:1-11. After two days it was the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take Him by trickery and put Him to death. But they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar of the people.” And being in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, as [Jesus] sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster flask of very costly oil of…
Quinouagesima
3rd Sunday in
Pre-Lent-2024
JESUS OPENS THE EYES OF THE BLIND ON THE WAY TO THE CROSS Sermon Text, St. Mark 10:46-52. Now they came to Jericho. As He [Jesus] went out of Jericho with His disciples and a great multitude, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the road begging. And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” Then many warned him to be quiet; but he cried…
Sexagesima
2nd Sunday
in Pre-Lent- 2024
JESUS, THE SOWER, SOWS HIS WORD IN YOUR HEART Sermon Text, St. Mark 4:1-20. And again He [Jesus] began to teach by the sea. And a great multitude was gathered to Him, so that He got into a boat and sat in it on the sea; and the whole multitude was on the land facing the sea. Then He taught them many things by parables, and said to them in His teaching: “Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow. And it happened, as he sowed, that some seed fell…
Septuagesima
1st Sunday in
pre-Lent
Sermon Text: Mark 22:31 We apologize, but due to technical difficulties, today’s service is in 3 parts. Part 1-First part of the Service Part 2-Gospel Reading Part 3-Sermon
Transfiguration – 2024
SHINING, EXCEEDINGLY WHITE Sermon Text, St. Mark 9:1-9. And He said to them, “Assuredly, I say to you that there are some standing here who will not taste death till they see the kingdom of God present with power.” Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John, and led them up on a high mountain apart by themselves; and He was transfigured before them. His clothes became shining, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them. And…