Category: young adult ministry
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A New Way sermon from John 8
Check out my sermon I preached on 19 October 2025 called “A New Way” from the passage about the woman caught in adultery in John 7:53-8:11 linked below. I offer some thoughts from different scholars to help broaden the message typically shared from this passage (at least from the conservative circles I grew up in).…
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What’s Keeping You Growing sermon from Mark 1
When I cut off all the white mold infested leaves of my cantaloupe plant in an effort to keep the disease from spreading, I inadvertently cut off its life source. That plant didn’t die immediately, but it did die slowly when I cut off its way of making food. Likewise, in our busy lives, how…
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Faith That Moves Us All sermon from Mark 2
Mark 2, verse 5 says that when Jesus saw THEIR faith, he responded with a controversial declaration to the paralyzed man lying on the mat in the middle of a packed room that included the authorized Scripture interpreters of that time (the scribes and more). What did everyone do? What were their responses? And how…
