from Mark 4:1-11
*this sermon is from our Sanctuary Service on January 10th, due to Crossroads having to take a week away as a result of awaiting COVID test results.
May it bless you.
w/ Lory Beth Huffman
Crossroads at Boone United Methodist Church
Messages and Media
from Mark 4:35-41
That there will be challenges in life is unavoidable. The question becomes not, “what if?” but “when?” When you find yourself faced with one of life’s storms, something that is out of your control…where do you turn? Do you seek the expertise of others? Do you rely on your own wisdom or ability or pure determination to weather the storm? Or might you be willing to turn to the One Who is Lord over the storm?
The One Who is in the midst of the storm with you!
What if God doesn’t just have in mind to rescue you FROM the storm, but to deliver you THROUGH the storm? How might your faith…how might your life be transformed as a result?
Who would you know God to be on the other side?
w/ Vern Collins
from Mark 12:28-34
What does stewardship mean to you? Often times we cringe at those words in church…here comes the ask, right? More money. More time. More serving.
What if stewardship weren’t about what you GIVE, but about Who you understand God to be, and how you lived your life in response to that?
As we start this series inviting you to consider a new way of thinking about stewardship, what if you thought about the journey of stewardship as a journey? When starting a journey, what is most important to have…in order to sustain a journey…what is most important to have?
w/ Vern Collins
from Mark 16:1-8
In each of the Gospels we are given an account of the resurrection of Jesus…that moment, that event which took place on the third morning when Jesus walked out of the tomb. The event that changed everything. The hope of the church, and the world hangs on that one event. The one that says death and sin DO NOT have the final say.
We hear that story each year on Easter morning…hear that hope proclaimed. But how do you make more than just the retelling of an account of something that happened 2,000 years ago? How do you, like Peter for example, EXPERIENCE the resurrection…the LIVING HOPE of the resurrection…the hope that affects your life NOW right where you are?
Mark’s Gospel gives us an idea of how we might go from hearing an account to be transformed by this Savior!
w/ Vern Collins
from Matthew 24:1-8, Mark 4:35-40
from Mark 9:2-8