Ecclesiastes 2:1-11“Compassion is allowing someone else’s heart to walk around in your chest”.Two Assumptions the Teacher has:1. I can’t find it here… then I have to go there!2. If I find it, he will be full and content.“We are unhappy and we are generall

Ecclesiastes 1:12-18, 2:12-17Nick Blurb: "In order to get to the truth, we have to be willing to take a look at the things we do not like."“As a reader you will have to start off with meaninglessness and wade through twelve chapters of tension, poetry, pr

Ecclesiastes 1:1-11“Ecclesiastes is a kind of back door that allows followers of Jesus to have the sad and skeptical thoughts that they would never allow to enter the front door of their faith.”Norbert Lohfink“The author wrote the book to suggest with suc

Mark 3:20-35; 1:1, Colossians 1:13; 2:13-15(Message)“The parable may be taken as Jesus’ mission statement in Mark, urging us to interpret the rest of the narrative guided by this image. The whole Gospel is a story about the reign of God coming to displace

Mark 3:7-19, John 15:16, 1 Corinthians 1:26-29Mark 3:7-127 Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the lake, and a large crowd from Galilee followed. 8 When they heard about all he was doing, many people came to him from Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, and the reg

Mark 2:23-3:6“A “day off” cannot sustain the human soul. Only a Sabbath can.”A.J. Swoboda, Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World“The Sabbath is God’s solution to FOMO anxieties. On the Sabbath, we are “in” because we are with

Mark 2:23-28, Genesis 2, Exodus 20:8;111. The Sabbath is Built into the Rhythm of CreationGenesis 2“The Sabbath is an invitation to enter delight. The Sabbath when experienced as God intended, is the best day of our lives. Without question or thought, it

Luke 24:13-32“Without that we die, whether you live in an Auschwitz or in a luxury apartment downtown.”Viktor Frankl - Man’s Search For Meaning“We substituted and deified nation for God. Americans looked increasingly to the nation, not to God, as the sour

Mark 2:1-12; 1:152. April 6th sermon needs to get put up on podcast.Lament: To Complain to GodPsalm 22:1-2, Psalm 88, 1 Peter 5:6-7,Luke 19:41–42, 2 Corinthians 6:4-10