Sermons

So much is wrapped up in a name! Identity – Purpose – value – direction. So much can be learned from Jesus’ encounter with the demon world and a man whose world got turned right side up.

Christians today still struggle to balance a seemingly unresponsive God with the overwhelming storms of life. At the end of the story the disciples were terrified for a very different reason.

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?

Would this question help us recognized the wrong headed ideas we have about who God is and how he works? What core values is Jesus challenging by asking this question of the Teachers of the Law? How does it challenge our values?