(For the context of future listeners, this sermon was delivered during the government’s warnings and mass shutdowns during the COVID-19 Corona Virus pandemic.  This was the first Sunday Hopeland was closed.) “Did Jesus have to die so horribly?”  That’s a question that anyone would ask who reflects on or studies the history of Jesus. Mark […]

Mark 2:23 – 3:6 One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain. The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?” He answered, “Have you never read what David did when he and his […]