Game of Herodians

A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, California July 11, 2021 Mark 6:14-29 John the Baptizer had said a lot of things in his life that were controversial. Mark doesn’t report much of his preaching, but we get more from Luke’s gospel, where John called God’s chosen people a “brood of vipers”.…

It’s Not Always About You (and that is GOOD NEWS)

A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho February 8 2020 Mark 6 Let’s start at the middle passage, a very fine place to start. Jesus sends the 12 disciples out in pairs, like animals off the ark, to heal, to cast out demons, to call people to repent. We often give the…