St Marcus Mke Sermons

"Peace be with You" is a stand alone message, looking at Jesus' first interactions with his disciples following the resurrection. These men had all fled, doubted he was the Messiah, rejected the women's reports, and were in the midst of life crisis and faith crisis and Jesus' first words to them are, "Peace be with you!"  He then commissions them!  He not only forgives their doubt, but turns and immediately focuses them on looking towards sending the message that HE HAS RISEN!  He speaks the same to us!   The message presupposes that one has recently seen the last 4 minutes of the movie, "The Road to Emmaus" www.theroadtoemmaus.com which was shown in worship as an intro to the message.   (C) image copyright www.TheRoadToEmmaus.com

Scandal: an event which outcome offends your expectations  When we look at the events leading up to the death and resurrection of our Savior we are confronted with multiple scandals, things people wouldn't tolerate from their leaders. Yet, God had a Plot from before time began...

Come and See, as God brings kings or wisemen from the East to worship Jesus with gifts. As we see the first Christmas presents given we see the heart of giving is the love God has for us. 

Jesus spends time WITH a grieving family in John 11. 

Jesus spends time WITH a religious leader who doesn't quite get it.  The most well known Gospel passage, John 3.16, is spoken to a religious leader so that he understood Jesus' purpose in coming. 

Jesus spends time WITH a sinful woman and reveals his grace and mercy. 

Jesus spends time WITH a family with special needs. So often in life we are looking for answers and sometimes God's answer is, "no one messed up, this happened that the work of God might be seen."