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Part 20: The Christian’s Head on Culture’s Platter

August 20, 2023 • Brian Stanley • Mark 6:14–29, Mark 8:34–35, Luke 23:8–11

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Someone once said, “The truth will make you free, but first it will make you miserable.” When we stand in opposition to Jesus and His teaching, we will find ourselves at the cross-roads of discomfort or freedom. To choose freedom is to give in to the truth, it’s implications and requirements. To continue down the path of discomfort is to continue in our rejecting of truth. Should we continue further down this road, it leads to the hardness of heart. The Christian stands at this crossroad and points to Christ (Truth).

Part 26: Spiritual Amnesia

October 1, 2023 • John Weber • John 5:19, Mark 8:1–26, 1 John 1:5, Proverbs 16:18, 1 Corinthians 3:1–3

Join us for week 26 in our series on Mark. John covers a large portion of scripture filled with wonderful teachings, miracles, and practical lessons to today.

Part 25: Jesus Cares for Outcasts

September 24, 2023 • Brian Stanley • Mark 7:24–37, Isaiah 42:6

Christians at times take some flak for failing to love or respond to people as they should. Unfortunately, we do indeed get it wrong from time to time. However, Jesus never got it wrong. He set the bar of perfection when it came to loving those who were on the outside, those who others deemed as unlovable or who were rejected by those in power. May we all learn from His example and also ‘do everything wonderfully’.

Part 24: Treating the Symptoms (Don’t just treat the symptoms of a heart problem)

September 17, 2023 • Brian Stanley • Mark 7:14–23, Hosea 6:6, Isaiah 1:11–17, Jeremiah 7:22–23

The bane of many good physicians in our modern age, is that they are all too often placed in the position of treating symptoms, all because patients refuse to address the underlaying attitudes and behaviors that are slowly hurting them. Everyone knows, treat the symptom and the problem remains – and it is the problem that we must address. In our text today, Jesus calls out this very thing as it pertains to the cleanness of one’s heart. For the religious of his day, they believed that it was the physical things put into one’s body that made them unholy. Jesus makes a radical revelation however, stating that it is what proceeds from the heart of man, not what he eats, that makes him unclean.