First Baptist Church

Picking back up in our passage in Mark, Jesus has been called out as that promised Messiah and King by the promised messenger, who’s made ready the people for His coming, and by the divine Trinity who all were present at His baptism, a baptism that didn’t symbolize His need for forgiveness but a baptism…

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Let’s begin this morning by diving straight into our passage. The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way, the voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the…

We start this morning’s message by returning to the gospel of Mark, John Mark, the cousin of Barnabas, the disciple and assistant of Peter, and the eventual co-laborer and encourager of the apostle Paul. We spoke last time that the existence of the gospel of Mark, even as we have it today, came largely…

If you were asked today, to write an introduction to a story how would you begin? You might begin with the classic fairy tale introduction... “Once upon a time” or perhaps you might rather want to have them grasp for the star with an introductions like this.... “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away”.…