Americans make and receive about 6 billion phone calls each day and constantly communicate with one another through a variety of different technology platforms. But we also live in a polarized world as a direct result of such communication. So in a world full of calls to allegiance, how is Jesus’ call unique? In Jesus’ 6 different encounters in Mark 1, we discover that Jesus’ call is in a league of its own. It is a Call uniquely to himself and his Kingdom.
Jesus: The Good News (Mark 1:1-15)
Good News. We all long for it, especially coming off a year in 2020 unlike any other. Jesus comes proclaiming Good News when begins his public ministry, but what is he talking about exactly? Are there “strings attached” to the Good News Jesus brings? And is the Good News he brought 2,000 years ago still relevant to us today? What we discover together in this sermon is that when we analyze Jesus’ words and watch his life, we see that he doesn’t just bring good news… he actually is the Good News himself.