Vision. Some of us need ours corrected with glasses. Pastor Beth told us a story of her own visual correction. There is another type of vision that we make the choice to see or not see. Progress is being made but we still have a long way to go in dealing with the injustices in…
A Place of Grace
Sermons (Page 52)
Three main points to Pastor Eric’s sermon: God is rich in mercy We are built to respond (in love). God pursues us and injects his Grace into us. So what does this look like for the people of God at St. Mark? Listen to the sermon to see what ideas are percolating to ‘inject Grace”…
What a blessing to have a daughter of our congregation, Kahli A., offer a thought-provoking and heart-warming sermon! Being a first year student at a Christian university has given Kahli the opportunity to reflect thoughtfully upon her faith, family, and life. Kahli entitles her sermon “Revelation” and explores the many “veils” that are being…
Jesus says, in today’s Gospel of Mark, “Concern yourself with divine things rather than human things.” He turned to Peter and said, “Remember, you are made for divine things.” In his sermon, Pastor Eric asked us to think about what exactly these divine things are. The Gospel teaches us that divine things include…denying your self,…
Mark 1:9-15 recounts Satan’s tempting of Jesus in the wilderness. Pastor Eric told us that he was going to confess some things to us. But first he had to tell us a joke to center us. And he did. The theme for today is ‘we are the tempted beloved’. Fighting, stealing and telling a lie…
Lent is a journey with Jesus and a mirror of our life. It’s a journey marked with the cross of Christ. Marked with ashes. What a strange thing we mark ourselves with…ashes. These ashes remind us where we are going and that we would be dust without God. Pastor Beth asked us two questions and…
We believe that we are the church, the body of Christ. What body part are you? Pastor Beth stated that she never really understood the Transfiguration. This part of Jesus’s life goes beyond understanding because with Jesus there’s always more than we can figure out. Jesus can’t be contained. We may not always know what…
On this fifth Sunday after Epiphany, Pastor Eric shared his vision of God’s intimate, immediate kiss of grace. His idea began with a “Thursday Church” exercise of writing words that represented gifts from God on strips of paper and forming them into a chain. Some of the gifts noted were compassion, family, mercy, and growth. During this morning’s children’s…
When Jesus’s was baptized the heavens opened up. When he was teaching in the synagogue for the first time he commanded an unclean spirit out of a person. Life as we know it totally changed when Jesus started his ministry. God was showing his power through his son. Jesus told his disciples that they would…
The first chapter of the Gospel of St. Mark tells of Jesus calling out to others to leave what they are doing and follow him. On this 3rd Sunday after Epiphany, Pastor Eric shared some of the different ways that Jesus has called out to him throughout his life, beginning as a child at Camano…