10 Tweets

Here is last weekend's sermon in 10 Tweets, "Who Do You Day That I Am?" (Healing the Blind Man), Mark 8:16-37, Series: Marvels & Wonders: A Study of the Miracles of Jesus

1/ When listening to advice the brain is "napping" acc to brain scans. It lights up with engaging questions.

2/ Jesus asks 15 questions in Mark 8. All leading to the conclusion of "lesson 1" for the disciples regarding who Jesus is.

3/ "Do you not yet understand?" He's the provider. He can make bread. Yes, but why can he do this? Who is he?

4/ "Do you see anything?" is directed at the blind man AND the disciples.

5/ "Who do people say that I am?" They don't quite get it. The people see Jesus as the blind man saw men as trees, walking.

6/ "But who do you say that I am?" You can almost see the new circuits light up as Peter gets it for the first time. "You are the Christ."

7/ Jesus is the Savior Messiah, but that's only part one of the story. So many people are missing the rest of the story.

8 Jesus drops the bombshell for the first time: I must suffer and die and rise. Peter rebukes him. What does that look like?

9/ Jared Wilson: "When you seek to have Christ w/out taking his cross, you are not aligning with Christ but with the Devil."

10/ Don't be surprised by suffering. Don't be satisfied with suffering. Din't lose sight of your true hope in suffering.

10 Tweets

Here’s last weekend’s sermon in 10 Tweets, Marvels & Wonders: A Study in the Miracles of Jesus, “A Barricade of Backs" (Healing a Man Who Can’t Walk)

1/ They called an emergency meeting of the leadership to determine how to keep people OFF their property so their stuff wouldn’t get broken

2/ Churched-people are prone to erecting barricades to keep unchurched-people from coming to church or sticking with it once they’ve come.

3/ Listening to Jesus, they form what Buchanan calls “a barricade of backs.”

4/ It’s natural to huddle up with like-minded people. Huddling up is even good. God calls us to huddle up.

5/ If the team never breaks from the huddle, it never gets into the game. The ball is in play when the 4 men show up with their paralyzed pal

6/ Buchanan: "It's when we're more upset when stuff gets broken than excited when the broken are mended."

7/ It takes selflessness. The crowds are streaming to Jesus but these 4 guys go in the opposite direction to get their friend.

8/ They don’t let the religiously self-absorbed or the uncaring deter them from their assignment to bring lives to Christ.

9/ It takes faith. They do all this because they are convinced Jesus can help there friend.

10/ Not even God can forgive w/out exacting payment or absorbing the sin. Jesus forgave knowing that he would absorb this man’s sin on the cross