Sermons

Jesus challenges James and John  to re-evaluate their role in his kingdom.

The anonymity of being just another face in the crowd exempts us from making any personal commitment. Jesus’ question was, and is, intended to move people from the Crowd to the Committed.

Jesus asks a vital question to His disciples. It is the same question He puts to each one of us.

This is the million dollar question. It the question the gospel writers are constantly prompting us to respond to. And how we chose to answer it will change our life.

Everyone is looking for something. The question of who/what we are looking for dramatically impacts how we respond to who/what we find.

Implicit in the question is a call to faith in the One who always keeps His promises. Where we find such a faith is often surprising.

This question is not exclusively for Mary, but for everyone who reads the gospel story.

Jesus askes his disciples to make up their minds about who it is they are really following.

Jesus prompts us to consider not only how we respond to God’s grace but how we administer it to others.

Mindlessly marching through the mundane while thinking that God is pleased frequently misses the heart of God. What probing insight did Jesus hope to evoke in his hearers by contrasting healing and killing?