A. Wylie

Jesus is the King of kings and Lord of lords. We need to see Jesus for who He really is. We need to look at the coming of the king we need, not the coming of the king we want. We need to look to Jesus as the one true King, not as a king of our own making. How do we see Jesus for who He truly is?

We might have a heart problem, but we also have a solution to our problem. He wants to give us a new heart and a new life. Jesus came to be the remedy for our heart problem. How do we get a new heart?

We will all die one day. Many people are so afraid of death that they stop really living. As we our going to see in our reading from the Gospel of Mark, the power of death over us is ultimately a lost cause because Jesus was raised from the dead conquering death.

Light makes what was invisible, visible. It is our responsibility to make the Gospel of Jesus visible. What we say and do either shines the light or hides the light of Jesus. We want to let it shine!

It takes greater courage to serve than to be served. What does it look like to fearlessly serve a scared world that is being controlled more and more by fear and intimidation?

What does it mean for us to be a fearless church? What doesn't it mean? There is a call upon our lives as disciples of Jesus to be confident in Jesus and dare all the more to proclaim the gospel without fear.

It is by faith in Jesus alone that we are declared right before God. God’s gift of faith is the recognition of our utter moral bankruptcy and our inability to earn God’s favor and that we must receive and rest on Jesus, who has done it all.