Providence Reformed Church of Bakersfield

Tag: Rev Randy Martin

  • 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…

  • The Quest for Prophetic Certainty

    Mark 13:24-37 • Rev. Randy Martin • “But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken. And then they will see the Son of Man coming in…

  • The Worst That Could Happen to the Jews

    Mark 13:14-23 • Rev. Randy Martin • “But when you see the abomination of desolation standing where he ought not to be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let the one who is on the housetop not go down, nor enter his house, to take anything…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Religious Hypocrisy and Godly Sacrifice

    Mark 12:38-44 • Rev. Randy Martin • And in his teaching he said, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes and like greetings in the marketplaces and have the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts, who devour widows’ houses and for a pretense make…

  • Know Not Scripture, Know Not God

    Mark 12:18-27 • Rev. Randy Martin • And Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection. And they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring…

  • Christ or Caesar?

    Mark 12:13-17 • Rev Randy Martin • And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and some of the Herodians, to trap him in his talk. And they came and said to him, “Teacher, we know that you are true and do not care about anyone’s opinion. For you are not swayed by appearances,…

  • 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…

  • 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?”…