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1 month ago | 
preachingtoday.com | Mark Mitchell |Matt Woodley
Introduction
While I was leading some pastor training in the Philippines, I broke the pastors up into small groups and had them share various things about their lives. One of the questions I asked them had to do with what they enjoy doing in their spare time—what they do to relax. As I walked from group to group and listened to their responses, I kept hearing the same thing: "Spare time? I don't have any spare time."
A lot of us feel that way, even little kids.
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2 months ago | 
preachingtoday.com | Eric Knox |Matt Woodley |Mark Mitchell
Introduction
If you want to know the three points that I'm going to walk through this morning, they are very simple. I want to talk about God's heaviness towards sin. God never, ever takes light sin in our life. God breaks, he aches over it. He's heavy over sin. The second point is God's heart toward sin and how he handles it. When he looks at your sin, how does he look at your sin and what does he do with your sin? The third point is God's hope in dealing with sin. How does he deal?
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
preachingtoday.com | Anthony Delaney |Mark Mitchell
Introduction
Christmas is nearly here. Even though it’s been in the shops a lot longer, we as believers in Jesus celebrate the most important day in history, when God had his first birthday!
At a time of such darkness what a difference it makes that the Light of the World took on flesh, became an embryo, a tiny baby born in a very hostile and volatile place, still the most contested geography on earth.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
touchstonemag.com | Mark Mitchell
culture history View on the Return of a Diabolical & Meaningless Project Myths matter. They persist because they are carriers of truth. Of course, not all myths are simply made-up stories with a helpful moral. Some are based on actual events that, through their re-telling, have become condensed symbols that disclose features of the human condition.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
preachingtoday.com | Rob Hall |Mark Mitchell |Philip Graham Ryken
Introduction
Things have been so heavy lately, so I want to have a little fun. Let me ask you a few questions.
How many of you can’t stand it when the topic of politics is brought up at the dinner table, at work or with friends? How many of you love bringing it up!? How many of you have already made up your mind on who you will vote for in this year’s election? How many of you are simply praying for Jesus’ return?
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
preachingtoday.com | Bryan Wilkerson |Mark Mitchell
Alienation was originally a Marxist word and Karl Marx meant by it the alienation of the worker from the product of his labors. When what he produces is sold by the factory owner, he is alienated from the fruits of his earned work. But nowadays the word alienation has a much broader meaning for powerlessness. Whenever you feel politically or economically powerless, you are feeling alienated.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
preachingtoday.com | Dan Meyer |Bryan Wilkerson |Mark Mitchell
The story behind the sermon (by Dan Meyer)
The personal backdrop
The sermon "God and Caesar" reflects my longstanding curiosity about the proper relationship between piety and politics. This interest, I suppose, is a function of extended exposure to the topic. I grew up in a political family, the son of a state senator and nephew of a U.S. senator. I hold a political science degree from Yale and led its student government.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
preachingtoday.com | Michael Lawrence |Mark Mitchell |Matt Woodley
Introduction
Americans complain a lot. The Pilgrims and Puritans came over here because they were complaining about religious authority. We fought for our independence complaining about political authority. And not only is it in our history; it's our fundamental right to complain. John F. Kennedy first articulated our four basic consumer rights in a 1950 speech, and Congress went on to enact them in law. One of those rights is the right to complain. We don't just complain as individual consumers.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
preachingtoday.com | Mark Mitchell |David Karsten Daniels
Introduction
God's servants are found in some of the most surprising places. Elijah served in a very dark time in the history of God's people. King Ahab and his wife Jezebel were in charge. They were worshippers of a god named Baal. This was a violent and degraded religion with everything from temple prostitutes to child sacrifice. The fiery prophet Elijah appeared out of nowhere and confronted the king on behalf of God. He announced there'd be no rain or dew in the land except by his word.
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May 23, 2024 | 
preachingtoday.com | Gregory Hollifield |Mark Mitchell |Dan Meyer
Author’s Introduction: If Mark 9:30-50 defies interpretation, as commentator Eugene Boring claims, the verses that immediately precede are only slightly less difficult for the preacher to navigate.
Jesus’ exorcism of a demonized boy at the foot of the mountain where he was moments earlier transfigured appears in all three Synoptic Gospels (Matt. 17:14-21; Mark 9:14-29; Luke 9:37-43). Only Matthew includes the line about a faith capable of moving mountains. Mark’s record is the longest.
