Sermons on Mark
Reading the Map
Twenty-fifth Sunday After Pentecost Link directly to start of Sermon Service Booklet This Sunday’s Readings The Collect: Blessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which you have given us in our Savior Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for…
The Lives We Live
All Saints’ Day Go to Start of Sermon Service Booklet This Sunday’s Readings Gospel: Mark 12:38-44 38 As he taught, he said, ‘Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and to be greeted with respect in the market-places, 39and to have the best seats in the synagogues and places of honour at banquets! 40They devour widows’ houses and for the sake of appearance say long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.’ 41 He sat down opposite the treasury, and…
We Are God’s
Twenty-third Sunday After Pentecost Go to Start of Sermon Service Booklet This Sunday’s Readings Gospel: Mark 12:28-34 28 One of the scribes came near and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, he asked him, ‘Which commandment is the first of all?’ 29Jesus answered, ‘The first is, “Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one; 30you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind,…
Seeing God
Twenty-Second Sunday After Pentecost Go to Start of Sermon Service Booklet This Sunday’s Readings Gospel: Mark 10:46-52 46 They came to Jericho. As he and his disciples and a large crowd were leaving Jericho, Bartimaeus son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the roadside. 47When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout out and say, ‘Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!’ 48Many sternly ordered him to be quiet, but he cried out even more loudly,…
A Slave of All
Twenty-First Sunday After Pentecost Jump to recording at the start of the Sermon Service Booklet This Sunday’s Readings Gospel: Mark 10:35-45 35 James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came forward to him and said to him, ‘Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.’ 36And he said to them, ‘What is it you want me to do for you?’ 37And they said to him, ‘Grant us to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left,…
Giving of Yourself to Jesus
Twentieth Sunday After Pentecost Due to a technical issue, the service is in two parts Second part of service Start of Sermon is at 8:00 in Second part of service Service Booklet This Sunday’s Readings Gospel: Mark 10:17-31 17 As he was setting out on a journey, a man ran up and knelt before him, and asked him, ‘Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ 18Jesus said to him, ‘Why do you call me good? No one is good but…
Intimacy in Community
Ninetenth Sunday After Pentecost Sermon is at 25:36 in the recording Service Booklet This Sunday’s Readings Gospel: Mark 10:2-16 2 Some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked, ‘Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?’ 3He answered them, ‘What did Moses command you?’ 4They said, ‘Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her.’ 5But Jesus said to them, ‘Because of your hardness of heart he wrote this commandment for you. 6But from the beginning of creation,…
Don’t Get in the Way of Faith
Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost Jump to the sermon in the recording BONUS: Jump to the Baptism in the recording Service Booklet – you will also need a Book of Common Prayer This Sunday’s Readings Gospel: Mark 9:38-50 38 John said to him, ‘Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us.’ 39But Jesus said, ‘Do not stop him; for no one who does a deed of power in my name…
The G.O.A.T.
Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost Sermon starts at 18:33 in the recording Service Booklet This Sunday’s Readings Gospel: Mark 9:30-37 30 They went on from there and passed through Galilee. He did not want anyone to know it; 31for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, ‘The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him, and three days after being killed, he will rise again.’ 32But they did not understand what he was saying and were afraid…
Who Are You?
Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost Sermon starts at 22:18 in the recording Apologies for the odd format of the video Service Booklet Today’s Readings Gospel: Mark 8:27-38 27 Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, ‘Who do people say that I am?’ 28And they answered him, ‘John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.’ 29He asked them, ‘But who do you say that I am?’ Peter answered…
Unwritten Rules
Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost Sermon starts at 22:13 in the recording Service Booklet This Sunday’s Readings Gospel: Mark 7:24-37 24 From there he set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice, 25but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she came and bowed down at his feet. 26Now the woman was a Gentile, of Syrophoenician origin.…
An Affair of the Heart
Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost Sermon starts at 24:00 in the recording Service Booklet This Sunday’s Readings Gospel: Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 1 Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him, 2they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them. 3(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash their hands, thus observing the tradition of the elders; 4and they do not eat anything from…