Tag: PCA
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A Beautiful Thing for Jesus
Mark 14:1-11 • Rev. Randy Martin • It was now two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest him by stealth and kill him, for they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar from the people.” And…
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Impossibly Challenging Conditions
Mark 13:1-13 • Rev. Randy Martin • And as he came out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Look, Teacher, what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings!” And Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone upon another that will not…
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The Destruction of the Temple
Mark 13:1-4 • Rev. Randy Martin • And as he came out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Look, Teacher, what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings!” And Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone upon another that will not…
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Whose Temple Are You Building?
Haggai 2:1-23 • Russel Horner • In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet: “Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to all the…
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Commemorating the Kindness of God
Ephesians 2:6-7 • Rev. Dr. Jerrard Heard • And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived…
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David’s Lord, David’s Son
Mark 12:35-37 • Rev. Randy Martin • And as Jesus taught in the temple, he said, “How can the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David? David himself, in the Holy Spirit, declared, “‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet.”’…
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A Parable of Doom
Mark 12:1-12 • Rev Randy Martin • And he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenants and went into another country. When the season came, he sent a…
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Truth Denied to Non-Truth Seekers
Mark 11:27-33 • Rev Randy Martin • And they came again to Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came to him, and they said to him, “By what authority are you doing these things, or who gave you this authority to do them?”…
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Cursing the Fig Tree and Prayer with Faith
Mark 11:11-14, 20-25 • Rev Randy Martin • And he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple. And when he had looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve. On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry.And seeing in the distance a…
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The House of God
Mark 11:11-19 • Rev Randy Martin • And he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple. And when he had looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve. Jesus Curses the Fig Tree On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry. And…