Christ Community - Leawood Campus
Mark - January 26 | Leawood
Jesus Forgives - 9:00, 10:30 AM & ON-DEMAND
Locations & Times
Christ Community - Leawood Campus
14200 Kenneth Rd, Leawood, KS 66224, United States
Sunday 7:00 AM
Title: Jesus Forgives
Reference: Mark 2:1-12
Speaker: Ben Beasley, BenB@cckc.church
Reference: Mark 2:1-12
Speaker: Ben Beasley, BenB@cckc.church
Jesus came to forgive.
– We need forgiveness more than anything else (tragedy of the human condition)
"if someone were to say to you” the main problem in a person's life is never their suffering, it’s their sin." ~ Timothy Keller, Jesus the King: Understanding the Life and Death of the Son of God
I had a dream
I got everything I wanted
Not what you'd think
And if I'm being honest
It might've been a nightmare
To anyone who might care ~ Billie Eilish, Everything I Wanted
I got everything I wanted
Not what you'd think
And if I'm being honest
It might've been a nightmare
To anyone who might care ~ Billie Eilish, Everything I Wanted
– Jesus holds the power to forgive (comedy)
The whole essence of Jesus’ life is that in him we see clearly displayed the attitude of God to men and women. Now that attitude was the very reverse of the way God’s attitude had been perceived. It was not an attitude of stern, severe, austere justice, not an attitude of continual demand. It was an attitude of perfect love, of a heart yearning with love and eager to forgive. ~ William Barclay, The Gospel of Mark
– Jesus holds the power to forgive (the comedy that ends our tragedy).
– Go to Jesus for forgiveness (the fairytale that’s too good not to be true).
Let the preacher tell the truth. Let him preach this overcoming of tragedy by comedy, or darkness by light, of ordinary by extraordinary, as the tale that is too good not to be true because to dismiss it as untrue is to dismiss along with it that ‘catch of the breath, that beat and lifting of the heart near to or even accompanied by tears,” which I believe is the deepest intuition of truth that we have. ~ Fredrich Beuckner, Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairytale
The feeling I had occurs sometimes when you are walking along in the street, and suddenly you turn round because you feel someone is looking at you. While I was reading, before I reached the beginning of the third chapter, I suddenly became aware that on the other side of my desk there was a Presence…I realized immediately: if Christ is standing here alive, that means he is the risen Christ. ~ Anthony Bloom
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