Rob Storey

The Gospel of Mark portrays Jesus as a bit of a radical.  He is not the Jesus you see in the paintings on your grandmother’s wall—you know the one…the handsome man with long flowing hair with his hand on a lamb’s head looking full of peace and contentment.  Mark’s Jesus is a Rabbi who confronts hypocrisy in the Jewish elite.  He is a teacher who, unlike all other teachers, speaks with authority.  He is a “miracle worker” like no other who heals and casts out demons and even raises the dead through the overflow of the power of God.  He speaks with Centurions and with Greek women.  He calls his disciples hard hearted and dull all the while pulling them aside to teach them great truths of the coming Kingdom of God.  He is a man of action. 

Come and join us on Sundays as we work through this gospel account.  As we study, we remember that Mark was the pastor of a persecuted congregation of people who were either exiled from Rome or living in the catacombs below Rome’s flourishing society.  They desperately needed to know that Jesus lived and served and died for all men.  They needed the assurance that Jesus suffered and was persecuted and was kicked out of His own town simply because He spoke the truth in love.  How about you?  Is this the Jesus you depend on for your very life.  He is Savior and LORD of all.  He preached the coming Kingdom and then died to bring that Kingdom into our world. 

-Pastor Rob