This Sunday's Worship Materials can be found in the "Featured Sermon" below. We meet in person at Harper Park Middle School, and the service is also livestreamed on our YouTube channel.

Heart Prep for Sunday, August 30th

Well, we’ve come to the end of our 44-sermon series on The Gospel of Mark.  I’m going to miss learning from Peter and John Mark.  Hopefully, after having spent the last year immersed in their eyewitness accounts of the life of Christ, you will miss them too. 

We’ll be finishing up with Mark 15:21-47 and the depiction of the crucifixion.  However, it’s pretty obvious that something’s missing from this conclusion — and that’s because Mark has 16 chapters and actually ends with the resurrection.  But we’re ending here because we covered what happened on that first Easter Sunday … well, back on Easter Sunday.  You can listen to that sermon on our website (where there are years of sermons).

This week we’re going to cover the death of Christ, not just looking at what happened, but also at what it means for us.  So we’re going to look at what the death of Christ tells us about ourselves, what it reveals about Jesus, and how it can ultimately change us. 

And while those may sound like easy questions to answer, they’re actually not, and that’s because we’ve become so familiar with the details of the crucifixion, that it doesn’t stun us anymore.  The cross of Christ is a shocking and shameful event … and yet today, we live in an age where events no longer easily shock us and rarely shame us.  And that works against us spiritually.  So, we’re (hopefully) going to see how we can overcome that and how the cross can truly have its intended effect on us.  And I think that will be worthwhile, see you Sunday, Dr. Dave