The crowd welcoming Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday welcomed him as a king because they assumed he had come to deliver on their agenda. As the church today, we can make the same mistake, welcoming God as our king because we assume he's come to solve the problems that seem most pressing to us,…

Jesus' healing of Bartimaeus is a symbol of true discipleship (something his actual disciples failed to pick up on during their time with Jesus). He is a man dishonoured by the works of darkness who is honoured and healed by Jesus who then, with eyes wide open, joins Jesus on the way of the cross.…

To enter the kingdom of God means empything ourselves of status and power For those who don't have any, giving away what they don't have is relatively easy, while for those with a great deal of either, it's a difficult ask. In this sermon we look at two stories from Mark 10 to see how…