Text: Psalm 85 Theme: hate and Love ___________________________ Intro – Listen to this quote and see how it sounds to you: “He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.”[1] Take it in a poetic or an ironic way, you still find some truth in it....

Text: Mark 6:1-13 Theme: “Rejection meets more Grace” ___________________________ Intr – Imagine a small-town bakery run by a kind and patient baker named Alice. One day, a new customer named Mark comes in and loudly complains about the quality of the pastries, claiming they’re not fresh and taste terrible. Despite...

Text: Mark 4:35-41 Theme: On board through the storm ___________________________ Intr – One night when my son was already in bed a thunderstorm broke out. After a very loud thunder, I heard him crying, and I went to his room to be with him and bring him comfort. He asked...

Text: 2 Corinthians 5:1-10; Mark 4 Theme: “We are of good courage” ___________________________ Intr –  What type of people are we? Gardeners or carpenters? I came across these metaphors from an interview with psychologist Alison Gopnik at the University of California, Berkeley, talkin about her book “The Gardener and the...

Text: 2 Corinthians 4:5-5.1; Mark 3 Theme: “Our hearts are His” ___________________________ Intr – Two friends were chatting at the cafeteria, and one friend told the other how sometimes people would make her feel completely discouraged, devalued, with no desire to carry on.| “When I hear comments that tell me...