When Jesus returns to his hometown to minister, he’s not greeted with a red carpet—he’s met with resistance. Rather than being honored, he’s rejected. The people who have known him the longest fail to truly see who he is. By reducing Jesus to a caricature of himself, they miss entirely the life-giving relationship he’s inviting them into.

Series: The Gospel of Mark
Speaker: Paul Stiver
Hope Community Church - North Lakes

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Mark’s account of these two daughters gives us a timeless picture of the hardest realities of human life. In these twin stories, we stare disease and death in the face, and we feel the weight of true desperation. And yet, like a diamond hidden in rough stone, what emerges is something of immense value: weak, imperfect faith resting in a powerful Savior.

Series: The Gospel of Mark
Speaker: Paul Stiver
Hope Community Church - North Lakes

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Jesus crosses the sea for one person—one broken, bound, hopeless man—and what follows is a breathtaking display of both divine power and divine compassion. And in that display, our self-righteousness is undone: about our own need, and about how generous or compassionate we imagine ourselves to be.

Series: The Gospel of Mark
Speaker: Paul Stiver
Hope Community Church - North Lakes

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