The Rev. David Birnie – “The Healing Touch of Jesus,” Mark 5:21-43
The Rev. David Birnie, RUF campus minister at the University of Washington, brings us God’s Word. CCLI Copyright License 751114; CCLI Streaming License CSPL116892
The Restoration of Two Daughters, Part 2: The Dynamics of Faith, Mark 5:21-43
“The Restoration of Two Daughters, Part 2: The Dynamics of Faith” Mark 5:21-34 May 14, 2023 Faith Presbyterian Church – Morning Service Pastor Nicoletti The Reading of the Word We […]
The Restoration of Two Daughters, Part 1: Jesus Heals the Desperate, Mark 5:21-43
“The Restoration of Two Daughters, Part 1: Jesus Heals the Desperate” Mark 5:21-34 May 7, 2023 Faith Presbyterian Church – Morning Service Pastor Nicoletti The Reading of the Word We […]
Christ’s Redemption and Our Response, Part 2: Through the Eyes of the Gerasenes, Mark 5:1-20
“Christ’s Redemption & Our Response, Part 2: Through the Eyes of the Gerasenes” Mark 5:1-20 April 30, 2023 Faith Presbyterian Church – Morning Service Pastor Nicoletti The Reading of the […]
Christ’s Redemption and Our Response, Part 1: Through the Eyes of the Disciples, Mark 5:1-20
“Christ’s Redemption & Our Response, Part 1: Through the Eyes of the Disciples” Mark 5:1-20 April 23, 2023 Faith Presbyterian Church – Morning Service Pastor Nicoletti The Reading of the […]
Jesus, Jonah, and You, Mark 4:35-41
“Jesus, Jonah, and You” Mark 4:35-41 April 16, 2023 Faith Presbyterian Church – Morning Service Pastor Nicoletti The Reading of the Word We return, this morning, to our series in […]
Kingdom Growth, Mark 4:26-34
“Kingdom Growth” Mark 4:26-34 April 2, 2023 Faith Presbyterian Church – Morning Service Pastor Nicoletti The Reading of the Word We continue our series in the Gospel of Mark, and […]
Hidden to Be Made Manifest, Mark 4:21-25
“Hidden to Be Made Manifest” Mark 4:21-25 March 26, 2023 Faith Presbyterian Church – Morning Service Pastor Nicoletti The Reading of the Word We continue our series in the Gospel […]
The Parable of the Sower Part 2: On Being a Good Sower, Mark 4:1-20
“The Parable of the Sower Part 2: On Being a Good Sower” Mark 4:1-20 March 19, 2023 Faith Presbyterian Church – Morning Service Pastor Nicoletti The Reading of the Word […]
The Parable of the Sower Part 1: On Being Good Soil, Mark 4:1-20
“The Parable of the Sower Part 1: On Being Good Soil” Mark 4:1-20 March 5, 2023 Faith Presbyterian Church – Morning Service Pastor Nicoletti The Reading of the Word We […]
The Costs (and Rewards) of Following Jesus, Mark 3:20-35
“The Costs (and Rewards) of a Real Relationship with Jesus” Mark 3:20-35 February 26, 2023 Faith Presbyterian Church – Morning Service Pastor Nicoletti The Reading of the Word We return […]
The Basis of Discipleship, Mark 3:20-35
“The Basis of a True Relationship with Jesus” Mark 3:20-35 February 19, 2023 Faith Presbyterian Church – Morning Service Pastor Nicoletti The Reading of the Word We have been going […]
The Sin of the Scribes, Mark 3:22-30
“The Sin of the Scribes” Mark 3:22-30 February 12, 2023 Faith Presbyterian Church – Morning Service Pastor Nicoletti The Reading of the Word This morning we continue in the Gospel […]
Appointed, Mark 3:13-21
“Called & Commissioned” Mark 3:13-21 January 29, 2023 Faith Presbyterian Church – Morning Service Pastor Nicoletti The Reading of the Word This morning we continue in the Gospel of Mark […]
Recognition vs Devotion, Mark 3:7-12
“Recognition vs Devotion” Mark 3:7-12 January 22, 2023 Faith Presbyterian Church – Morning Service Pastor Nicoletti The Reading of the Word This morning we continue in the Gospel of Mark […]
The Offensive Unifier, Mark 3:1-6
“The Offensive Unifier” Mark 3:1-6 January 15, 2023 Faith Presbyterian Church – Morning Service Pastor Nicoletti The Reading of the Word This morning we return to our series in the […]
The Rev. Jonny Finlayson – How Blind People See, Mark 10:46-52
The Rev. Jonny Finlayson, Assistant Pastor and Church Planting Resident at Trinity Church in Seattle, brings God’s Word to Christ’s pulpit here at Faith Presbyterian Church this evening. Earlier in […]
The Lord of the Sabbath: Who We Are & Who Jesus Is, Mark 2:23-28
“The Lord of the Sabbath: Who We Are & Who Jesus Is” Mark 2:23-28 May 22, 2022 Faith Presbyterian Church – Morning Service Pastor Nicoletti The Reading of the Word […]
The Rev. Drew Burdette – Jesus Christ Uncloaked! Mark 9:2-13
The Rev. Drew Burdette, campus minister with Reformed University Fellowship at Oregon State University, brings the Word to Christ’s pulpit here at Faith Presbyterian Church this evening. CCLI Copyright License […]
The Presence of the Bridegroom, Mark 2:18-22
The Reading of the Word This morning, we return to the Gospel of Mark, as we come to Mark 2:18-22. Please do listen carefully, for this is God’s word for […]
Jesus the Physician, and His Fellowship, Mark 2:13-17 – Part 3
Pastor Nicoletti preaches the third of three sermons on Mark 2:13-17. The worship service also features a report from the Gideons. CCLI Copyright License 751114; CCLI Streaming License CSPL116892
Jesus the Physician, and His Fellowship, Mark 2:13-17 – Part 2
Pastor Nicoletti preaches the second part of his three sermons on Mark 2:13-17. Text is coming soon. CCLI Copyright License 751114; CCLI Streaming License CSPL116892
Jesus the Physician, and His Fellowship, Mark 2:13-17 – Part 1
The Reading of the Word This morning, we come to Mark 2:13-17, a text which we will spend the next two Sundays on. Please do listen carefully, for this is […]
Jesus and the Paralytic, Mark 2:1-12
“Jesus and the Paralytic” Mark 2:1-12 February 13, 2022 Faith Presbyterian Church – Morning Service Pastor Nicoletti The Reading of the Word This morning, we continue in the Gospel of […]
Discipleship and the Christ, Mark 8:27-9:8
The Rev. Dr. Jeff David preaches from the Gospel of Mark, exploring the way in which Jesus revealed his true mission and calling to the disciples. CCLI Copyright License 751114; […]
Jesus Cleanses a Leper, Mark 1:40-45
The Reading of the Word This morning, we continue in the Gospel of Mark, as we come to Mark 1:40-45. Please do listen carefully, for this is God’s word for […]
The Call of the King, Mark 1:29-39
The Reading of the Word This morning, we continue in the Gospel of Mark, as we come to Mark 1:29-39. Last week we read of Jesus’s preaching and casting out […]
Spiritual Warfare on the Overlooked Battlefield, Mark 1:21-28
This morning, we continue in the Gospel of Mark, as we come to Mark 1:21-28. Please do listen carefully, for this is God’s word for us this morning. 1:21 And they […]
Spiritual Warfare in Four Relationships, Mark 1:9-20
“Spiritual Warfare in Four Relationships” Mark 1:9-20 January 9, 2022 Faith Presbyterian Church – Morning Service Pastor Nicoletti This morning, we continue in the Gospel of Mark. Last week we […]
The Great Surprise, Mark 16:1-8
This morning we come to the 55th and last of our sermons on the Gospel of Mark. We are taking only the first eight verses of chapter 16 as our text but you see that your Bibles indicate that the remainder of the chapter is very doubtfully original to…
The Burial of Jesus, Mark 15:42-47
Text Comment
v.43
For the sake of his Gentile readers, Mark, as was his custom in the Gospel, explains the Jewish idiom of Preparation Day. It was also the Jewish custom, based on Deut. 21:23, to grant even to criminals a …
It is Finished, Mark 15:33-41
Last time we considered from the previous paragraphs the crucifixion as an historical event and the repugnance that was felt in those days, by Jew and Gentile alike, to crucifixion as a method of execution. It was the worst possible way to die and it…
The Crucifixion, Mark 15:16-32
Text Comment
v.18
There is great irony here, of course, as the soldiers unwittingly acknowledge Jesus’ true identity. In Mark, as in the other Gospels, the accent falls not on the physical torture, the fact of which was st…
Jesus Judged, Mark 15:1-15
Text Comment
v.1
The first verse of chapter 15 resumes the narrative broken off at 14:65 to complete the account of Peter’s betrayal. At that point the Sanhedrin had agreed to condemn Jesus.
Pontius Pilate was t…
Jesus in the Hands of Men, Mark 14:43-72
Text Comment
v.43
We know from the other Gospels that there were Roman soldiers in this group sent to arrest Jesus. Pilate no doubt had authorized the arrest.
v.47
We learn in the other Gospel…
Gethsemane, Mark 14:32-42
The Lord had told his disciples many times over the past year that he was going to Jerusalem to be arrested and killed. He entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday in a way designed to throw down the gauntlet to the religious authorities and to precipitate t…
The Lord’s Supper, Mark 14:12-31
Text Comment
v.16
The point of the Lord’s precise though mysterious instructions and the disciples finding things just as Jesus had told them to expect is to demonstrate that the Lord was in complete control of events as h…
Devotion to Christ, Mark 14:1-11
We have noted before Mark’s technique of the literary “sandwich” in which he inserts into the middle of one account another narrative and uses the relationship between the outer pieces and the center to make a point without having to spell it out. In…
This same Jesus…will come back…, Mark 13:1-37
Text Comment
We have an unusually long text to read this morning – in fact the longest block of teaching in the Gospel of Mark – and so I will not take time to comment on it as we read it.
When this passage is read, very often the inte…
Above All Else: the Heart, Mark 12:38-44
We come now to the final episode of the Lord’s public ministry as that ministry is narrated in the Gospel of Mark. What remains before his arrest and crucifixion are conversations that he had with his disciples only. Here the Lord sets over against o…
Jesus is God, Mark 12:35-37
The last encounter between Jesus and representatives of the religious leadership had resulted in their abandoning the field. They had been defeated and they knew it. The Lord now turns the tables and asks his adversaries a question. It is a theologic…
The Kingdom of Love, Mark 12:28-34
Remember now, we are in the midst of a series of test questions arranged by various members of the Sanhedrin to try to catch Jesus in some embarrassing or controversial reply. Now the scribes, or teachers of the law, take their turn, though in this c…
Heaven: Imagined and Real, Mark 12:18-27
We return to our interrupted series of sermons in the Gospel of Mark. Remember, we are considering one by one a series of exchanges the Lord had with various groups of Jewish clerics and religious leaders who were hoping to catch him out in something…
The Christian and the State, Mark 12:13-17
Remember, we are in a series of conversations the Lord had during the Passion Week with Jewish clerics and elders, they trying to trap him in some reply he would offer to their trick questions – like reporters still try to do today – and he turning t…
Unbelief, Mark 11:27-12:12
Text Comment
The next long section of Mark’s narrative of the Passion Week is devoted to conversations the Lord had with the religious leadership: the priests, the scribes or teachers of the law, and the elders. There is in fact a series of seve…
The Wrath of the Lamb, Mark 11:12-25
What we have in our text this morning is another of Mark’s “sandwiches” or “interpolations.” The narrative of the Lord’s driving the money-changers out of the temple is sandwiched between the two episodes having to do with the fig tree. We have learn…
Sticking to the Script, Mark 11:1-11
You may have noticed that in the great creeds of the Christian church the entire ministry of the Lord Jesus is skipped over without so much as a word. The Apostles’ Creed , after the brief article on God the Father, continues: “…and in Jesus Christ,…
A Representative Disciple, Mark 10:32-52
In this tenth chapter of Mark we have already considered the case of a representative un disciple, the rich young man who came to Jesus but decided not to commit his life to him because he judged the cost of such a commitment to be too high. Now we …
A Prosperity Gospel?, Mark 10:27-31
Text Comment
v. 31
The sense is that those who take their stand on their riches or like worldly pleasures and possessions will in the end have nothing, while those who forsake everything to follow Jesus will not only be co…
A Representative Undisciple, Mark 10:17-27
Remember that we are considering in this section of Mark a series of vignettes that accent some aspect of Christian discipleship. We have so far considered how loyalty to Jesus bears on the relationships of Christian husbands and wives and its implic…