Sermons from September 2021

Sermons from September 2021

Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Mark 9:38-50 Another ExorcistJohn said to [Jesus], “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not stop him; for no one who does a deed of power in my name will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me. Whoever is not against us is for us. For truly I tell you, whoever gives…

Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost

Mark 9:30-37 Jesus Again Foretells His Death and Resurrection[Jesus and his disciples] went on from there and passed through Galilee. He did not want anyone to know it; for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him, and three days after being killed, he will rise again.” But they did not…

Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Mark 8:27-38 Peter’s Declaration about JesusJesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” And they answered him, “John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.” He asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the…

Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Mark 7:24-37 The Syrophoenician Woman’s FaithFrom there [Jesus] set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice, but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she came and bowed down at his feet. Now the woman was a Gentile, of…