An Unexpected Path to Hope: God is On Trial

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…

An Unexpected Path to Hope: Refusing the Sword

Passage: Mark 14:43-50 Guide for Group Discussion or Personal Reflection Sermon Summary During his betrayal and arrest, Jesus demonstrated the counterintuitive way in which God’s kingdom advances. Unlike other kingdoms, God’s kingdom comes not through domination, but through surrender. Though Mark goes to great lengths to highlight Jesus’ authority—an authority he possessed even in the…

An Unexpected Path to Hope: The Table of Jesus

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’…

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