SERMONS ON MARK
Our sermon ideas on Mark will help you preach a powerful message on Jesus as the Son of God. Preach on topics including discipleship, Jesus as teacher, the kingdom of God, and the cause of the cross. Prepare your messages on God's Word in Mark with sermon outlines or an entire sermon series.
Mark: The Gospel of New Beginnings
by John Barnett
I can't think of anything more wonderful for us this morning than to be- starting this brand new year together, and- celebrating the New Covenant promises of a new heart and a new spirit within us through this communion, and worshiping our God of New Beginnings. You may have had a horrible past year or an incredible 2006-but whichever it was, God declares that we start today brand new in Christ. This reality is emphasized as the calendar starts over; communion also is a constant reminder of this promise-but as we will see this morning, the Gospel by Mark is from start to finish the Gospel of New...
All Systems Go! (7 of 7)
by Jeff Schreve
I hope and pray and trust that God has been speaking to your heart as He has been speaking to my own, and I hope that you are getting on the road to recovery in some dysfunction in your life. You know, we've talked about the fact that it's never too broken to mend. No matter how messed up your life might be, no matter how messed up a relationship is, a marriage is, it's never too broken for God to do a miracle and God to mend it. And we've also talked about how we need to receive God's forgiveness. And lots of people carry around a big old sack of guilt everywhere they go. And God wants you to lay that down. And God wants you to receive...
Mark - Jesus Christ the Servant (2 of 32)
by Stan Coffey
INTRODUCTION: Mark's gospel, the shortest one, has as its purpose to present the Lord Jesus as the suffering servant. The key verse is Mark l10:45, ''For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'' Mark's view of the Lord Jesus as a suffering servant accounts for the absence of many of Jesus' teachings in his gospel. It was not so much Jesus' words as His works that Mark emphasizes. Mark's gospel is a gospel of action, we see Jesus on the move. He heals first in one city and then in another. He moves rapidly from place to place. In Mark two words recur in the King...
I Believe in Believing Faith
by Ike Reighard
Today, we will begin a series of messages that I have entitled, How to Believe in an Unbelieving World. My subtitle describes my methodology for this study: Bedrock Beliefs for the Shifting Sands of Time. We live in a day and age when things that we once believed were unchangeable are changing, and the rapid pace sometimes makes us feel as if we are trapped between two worlds. In a sense, we are trapped between a secular, unbelieving world of spiritual ethics and a world of faith with absolute truth as a foundation.Faith forms the axle of the universe. Real faith involves an attitude of mind, a content of mind resulting in action. William James called it, "The Will to Believe," but we must....
Sowers, Seeds, and Soils
by Ernest Easley
Now as you're turning to Mark's gospel and the fourth chapter … have you ever wondered why it is that the same people can sit in the same worship experience and hear the same message, sing the same songs and yet one walks out changed while the other one just walks out? Why is it that going to worship helps some people and doesn't help other people? Well, that's what Jesus is talking about here in Mark 4. It's in this fourth chapter we read in verse 2, ''Then He taught them many things by parables …'' Nobody could tell a parable like Jesus. He was not only the master-carpenter … He was the master-story teller. He could illustrate...
Blueprint for the End
by Jerry Vines
There seems to have always been, on the part of man, a keen interest in the future. Dwight D. Eisenhower said one time, "I am greatly interested in the future because I'm going to spend the rest of my life there." It seems, somehow, God has placed within man an interest in the future and an awareness that life as we know it is not going to continue indifinitely. Somehow, men know that there is going to be a time of the end. I think the devil has used this innate desire on the part of man to know the part of man to know the future in many detrimental ways. In our days the devil has those who are trying to tell men what the future is going to...
Mark Chapter 1 (1 of 16)
by Harley Howard
One of the interesting facts about this brief but to the point record of Jesus, according to the gospel of Mark, is the brevity that he used to describe the fact of Jesus Christ being God's son. When you compare the other writers, Matthew and Luke, for example, they both spend a great amount of time establishing the identity of Christ that Mark summarized in one verse! In fact, it took quite of bit of introduction of the person of Christ; that is, His deity, oneness and eternality with the father, from John's gospel; and of the genealogies and the focus of His physical birth and that He is the Messiah and the son of man from both...
Lessons That Can Be Learned from a Storm
by Rex Yancey
Life is full of storms. It didn't take me long to figure that out on the Gulf Coast. I read where they asked Osceola why he moved his tribe to high ground every summer. He said, "Saw grass bloom." He didn't have a meteorologist but he had learned that when the saw grass blooms the hurricanes are racing over the Atlantic. One of the most frustrating things about living on the coast is that it is hard to plan anything in the summer months. I boarded my house up on many occasions when the hurricanes were bouncing in the Gulf. One summer I got into the same storm three times. Ellon and I carried some furniture to Florida for Lori...
The Jesus Most People Miss (1 of 3)
by Chris Brown
He is a Jesus that: cares more about a relationship than an experience . Mark 7:31-37, 3:12, 5:40-43, 8:23; Matthew 9:30, 12:16, 16:20, 17:9; Luke 5:14, Acts 9:40 will always meet you where you are at Mark 7:33-35; Luke 7:39,19:5-7; John 3:16, 4:4-8; Philippians 2:5-11; Romans 5:8; 1 Timothy 1:15 is moved by a compassion to meet needs. Mark 8:1-3, 1:41; Matthew 9:35-36, 20:34; Luke 7:11-15; John 11:32-44 knows you don't have what it takes, but still asks for what you have. Mark 8:4-5; 1 Corinthians 1:26-31; Philippians 4:13; Matthew 13:32; Exodus 4:1-12 does not need us, but still chooses to use us. Mark 8:6-10; Judges 7:2; 1 Samuel...
Mark: The Amazing Jesus (4 of 29)
by Roger Thomas
Introduction: By whatever standard you use, Jesus is the most remarkable, amazing person in the history of the world. James Allan Francis (''The Real Jesus and Other Sermons'' © 1926 by the Judson Press of Philadelphia (pp. 123-124 titled ''Arise Sir Knight!'', adapted version) expressed it this way: Nineteen long centuries have come and gone, and today He is a centerpiece of the human race and leader of the column of progress. I am far within the mark when I say that all the armies that ever marched, all the navies that were ever built; all the parliaments that ever sat and all the kings that ever reigned, put...
The Anointing (1 of 7)
by Bob Ingle
There is no doubt Jesus loves people. Many of us learned that fact when we were very young. The first song we were taught was 'Jesus Love Me this I know for the Bible tells me so.' And it's true. The Bible tells us that when Jesus walked on this planet, He demonstrated love in every conceivable way. He cradled children. He healed diseases. He taught truth. He touched the untouchables. He endured cruelty and rejection. He died willingly as a sacrifice for sin. He endured the wrath and penalty of God for sinners. From every possible perspective, Jesus demonstrated His love for people through His actions. The final section of...
How Much Is It Worth? (3 of 3)
by Jeff Strite
OPEN: Several years ago this advertisement was placed in a New England are newspaper: 'Unknown item for sale. We know it's valuable; we just don't know what it is. If you can identify it, we'll sell it for $250.'' (Reader's Digest 9/02 p. 145) Sometimes it's hard to decide what something is worth. My daddy once said that when you're selling something you can ask whatever you like. But something is only worth what someone else is willing to pay you for it. ILLUS: About 10 years ago, a man was browsing at Music City Thrift Shop Nashville. He found an old yellowed rolled-up document that had the Declaration...
The Other-Side
by Donald Cantrell
Theme: ''There is a day in our lives when we must go to the other-side'' This is a funeral sermon for a dear saved friend and family member. Mar 4:35 KJV - And the same day, when the even was come, he saith unto them, Let us pass over unto the other side. Mar 4:36 KJV - And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship. And there were also with him other little ships. Mar 4:37 KJV - And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. Mar 4:38 KJV - And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto...
Why Was Jesus Baptized? (2 of 6)
by Bob Ingle
Mark 1 lays the foundation for the beginning of the New Testament Gospel era. Mark gives us what we need if we're truly going to understand Jesus and His Gospel. Today we get to meet the very first Baptist preacher. And like most of us, he's really weird. May 22nd, 1992 is the very last time America heard an introduction that they had heard on late-night TV for over 30 years. The introducer was Ed McMahon. And his introduction, then, was what? ''Heeeere's Johnny.'' Some of you don't know the Bible, but you know late-night TV. Ed McMahon did a lot of things on TV. It's interesting, if you read his bio, he did a number of things...
The Importance of Baptism
by Scott Maze
Jesus had a ministry that lasted a little more than three years. Of all the things He could have started His ministry with and ended His ministry with, He started it by being baptized and concluded it by commanding the church to make disciples and baptize others. Now, since baptism was the bookends of the ministry of the Son of God, that alone should tell us that baptism is a big deal. Baptism is important, not because Baptists say it is, but because the Bible says it is. In fact, the Bible talks about baptism seventy-four times. In order to understand why baptism is a big deal, I want to answer three questions. 1. What Does Baptism...
Traditional or Triumphant
by David Cawston
There is not a religion today that has existed that does not have some degree of tradition that is established and well understood within its religious order. For example, lent, the Eucharist, Christmas etc..Jesus was using the seventh chapter of Mark to teach some important lessons in the current grasp of tradition versus triumphant obedience. The struggle with traditionalism. Mark 7:1-9 Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes came together to Him, having come from Jerusalem. Now when they saw some of His disciples eat bread with defiled, that is, with unwashed hands, they found fault. For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not...
