by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached June 13, 2021) When last we looked at the Gospel of Mark, we saw Jesus buried in a borrowed tomb. But that isn’t the end of the story! The rest of the story is that Jesus was only there for three days and three nights, and He arose! The…

Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on May 30, 2021) This message was a hard message to preach. In researching the horrible details of how a crucifixion is carried out, I found my mind continuing to go to the view of Jesus on the cross. What an awful six hours of pain and suffering it must…

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached 5/9/2021) Jesus has crossed the Kidron’s bloody stream. He has agonized in the Garden of Gethsemane. But now He stands at the foot of Calvary, gazing up Golgotha’s hill. He has been mocked, beaten, scourged, made to wear a thorny crown; but now He is about to become sin…

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached 5/9/21) Now we approach the hour of Jesus’ crucifixion: from Kidron’s bloody stream to Gethsemane’s awful agony, nothing compares to what Jesus is about to experience. Come join us as we walk with Jesus to the foot of Calvary, as He is about to bear the sins of all…

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached 4/25/2021) As the storm clouds of Calvary were amassing on the horizon, Jesus left the upper room and proceeded to the Garden Gethsemane. To be clear, no part of our atonement occurred in the Garden, only on the cross, but as He marched slowly, inexorably toward Calvary, the weight…

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on 4/11/2021) When Jesus proclaimed to the disciples that they all would betray Him, Peter immediately and vehemently spoke up and asserted that he would NEVER betray the Lord! Jesus looked at him – with compassion, no doubt – and told him that he would deny Him three times…

By Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached 4/4/2021) Have you ever wondered what the first New Testament church service was like? Wonder no more! In this passage, Mark tells us exactly what they did and how they conducted themselves in the first New Testament church service. You see, this was truly the first such service because,…

Preached 3/28/2021 As the storm clouds of Calvary are looming on the horizon, a strange and wonderful thing happened to the Lord Jesus Christ: Mary, His friend and Lazarus’ and Martha’s sister, came to Him with a very expensive alabaster box filled with ointment, and broke and poured it on His head and wiped His…

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached 3/14/2021) In this second and final part of “The Last Days” message, we learn that we should be waiting expectantly for His coming. While many messages of the “last days” in the world bring us fear, the true message that Jesus gives is one of hope, and excited anticipation!…

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached 3/14/2021) As the disciples were awed by the beauty and majesty of the Temple, they pointed it out to Jesus. His response was to tell them that this earthly Temple would be cast down stone by stone! When they privately asked Him when this would happen, and when the…

Elder Chris McCool (preached 3/7/2021) In the last few verses of Mark 12, we read of a very insignificant widow woman performing a very insignificant act, at least in the eyes of the world: she threw 2 mites into the treasury, even as the rich folks of the day were casting in large sums of…