By Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (November 15, 2020) One of the primary implications of the Cross was the renewed emphasis on charity (love) instead of Law: legalism will destroy the Kingdom of God, whereas love will enrich it! Thus teaches Jesus in this passage, using the example of marriage and children in the Kingdom. Please…

By Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (November 1, 2020) In this message, Elder Chris McCool continues his exposition of Mark 9 as Jesus teaches some lessons to His disciples about the implications of His upcoming death, burial, and resurrection. While they did not fully grasp all that He was teaching them, nonetheless He showed them how…

By Elder Chris McCool, Pastor Slowly but surely, Jesus was gently leading His disciples into an understanding of the true purpose of His incarnation: the Cross of Calvary. In illuminating their minds about the Cross, He taught them many lessons about the implications of the Cross. In this message, Pastor Chris McCool explores one of…

Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (October 25, 2020) Have you ever tried to work out your problems on your own, just to meet with failure? The disciples tried that, many times. In this case, they were unable to help a demoniac child whose father desperately sought help. But Jesus gave the father the greatest command of…

Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (10-18-2020) As we continue in our series on the Gospel of Mark, we find Jesus taking Peter, James, and John up into a high mountain and being transfigured before them. What a metaphor for our lives is this occurrence! Isn’t life a continuous stream of valleys, interspersed with the occasional mountaintop…

Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (September 26, 2020) Jesus began His earthly ministry preaching that the “Kingdom of God is at hand” – i.e., it is here and near to us. He was speaking of the Church, that Kingdom of Heaven that is “not of this world,” but which endures unto this very day. Now, in…

By Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (September 13, 2020) Pastor Chris McCool finishes up his sermon on the “rules of the road” that Jesus set out while walking with His disciples from place to place. These foundational principles about what Jesus was doing, Who He was, and why it matters, would help them in their ministry…

By Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (September 13, 2020) While His disciples walked with Him from place to place, Jesus was constantly teaching them “rules of the road” that would help them in their ministry. In this sermon, Pastor Chris McCool begins to deal with some of the “Rules of the Road” laid out by the…

In this message, Pastor Chris McCool recaps Part Thirteen of our series, about the Syro-Phoenician woman who came to Jesus in Mark Chapter 7, and finishes up the message. Do you think you don’t stand a chance in Jesus’ sight? This woman certainly didn’t – and yet our loving, compassionate Savior blessed her faith with…

Have you ever felt like you didn’t stand a chance with Jesus? There was a faithful little outcast woman, Syro-Phoenician by birth, who came to Him one day with a desperate petition: “My daughter is possessed of a devil, Lord, and only you can help!” But she was not a Jew, and therefore from all…

Have you ever looked around you at the evidence of the sin-curse and just had to “sigh” within your spirit? Lately it seems like that is all I do! In this chapter of Mark’s Gospel, we see the Savior sighing deep within His own spirit as He is faced with the need to heal another…

Zig Ziglar once told the story of a newly wed husband who watched while his young wife was putting a ham into the stove to cook. He noticed that she cut the ends off the ham before she placed it in the pan, and asked her why she did that. She said, “I’ve always done…