Passage: Luke 19:41-44 Guide for Group Discussion or Personal Reflection Sermon Summary As Jesus rode into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, pained by the spiritual blindness of his own people, he wept over the fact that Jerusalem, the City of Peace, “didn’t know the things that made for peace”. Though Jerusalem had all the spiritual resources…
Passage: Mark 14:53-72 Guide for Group Discussion or Personal Reflection Sermon Summary When life is hard, we can easily drift off course in our faith, and we need both a focus on Jesus’ faithfulness and an honesty about our own faithlessness to keep us on track. Both of these truths—Jesus’ faithfulness and our faithlessness—are illustrated…
Passage: Mark 14:17-31 Guide for Group Discussion or Personal Reflection Sermon Summary From the book of Genesis, when God “set a table” for Adam and Eve, to the marriage supper of the lamb in Revelation, the Bible is a story of God hospitably inviting us to the table to feast with him. Much of Jesus’…
Passage: Mark 1:32-39; Isaiah 50:4-6 Guide for Group Discussion or Personal Reflection Sermon Summary To flourish this winter, we will need to practice solitude, which Jesus modeled in his own life. Solitude is important, ultimately, because it helps us remember the God to whom we’re responsible, and who we are before him. In Mark 1:32-39,…
