Transfiguration Sunday 2012
We, in our low-church-Protestant world, don’t often take note of Holy Days like Transfiguration Sunday. But it might be good to do so. The Transfiguration is a big deal… learn more about it in this sermon:
Cosmic, Costly, & Counterintuitive
Mark 2:1-3:6 Jesus Does Everything Wrong
If you are only going to listen to some of this, the “real” sermon begins about 18 minutes into it. The first bit is some ways to summarize the whole section, talking about why it goes together as a unit, noticing some themes present in these stories taken together. The last bit focuses in upon Jesus’ calling Levi, the “sinner.”
Jerry Camery-Hoggatt, an expert on Mark (and a fantastic story teller and writer) wrote, in his commentary on Mark, “This story has very wide implications for Mark[‘s first readers including] Gentile Christians, who like Jesus associate with the wrong kind of people, violate the Sabbath, do not observe the calendar of feasts. No doubt some of Mark’s Christians in Rome were themselves ‘the wrong kind of people.’ For those outcast Christians, this simple gesture of Jesus, this freedom to party with tax collectors and ‘sinners’ did more than suspend for the moment the artificial boundaries of piety and defilement; it obliterated them altogether.”
Sermon on Mark 1:21-45
Mark 1:14-20 – The Kingdom of God
Mark 1:1-13
The first in a series on the Gospel of Mark.
Christmas and the New Year
We talk about why the New Year goes with Christmas (New Year’s Day falls on the 8th Day of Christmas).
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Christmas Eve 2011
Christmas Eve Service
On Christmas Eve, 2011, we will gather at 5 pm at Scottsdale Nazarene for a beautiful, fun, family experience. It will include a Christmas Pageant (that you won’t want to miss – all kinds of fun!) and close with singing Silent Night to candle light.
Longing for Love – Advent Week 4
We spend some time talking about the importance of love – and defining it.
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