John Mark Hicks

Guest Sermon post by Becky Frazier Texts: Luke 1:46-55; Psalm 126; John 1:6-8, 19-28; Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11. This week, we gather to celebrate the third week of advent. The meaning of advent is the arrival of something or someone important. And during these four weeks leading up to Christmas, Christians around the world practice the […]

Season 1, Episode 5. Available on Podcast here. Available on Vimeo here. Stan Wilson, Haley Villacorta, David Villacorta, and I have begun a series of podcasts/videos about “The Chosen” produced and directed by Dallas Jenkins. These conversations seek to explore one dimension of “The Chosen” per episode. This week we focus on Mary, the Wedding […]

The drama of the second (Revelation 4:1-16:20) has not yet ended. We are yet in the middle of it. Heaven has opened the seven seals (Revelation 6:1-8:5) and sounded the seven trumpets (Revelation 8:6-11:19) but we have not yet seen the final, climatic bowls of wrath (Revelation 15-16).  sandwiched between the trumpets and the bowls is the dramatic […]

Having chosen his twelve, Jesus resumes his ministry in Galilee, and he finds both popularity and opposition. He is so popular that people crowd him in such a way that Jesus and his disciples are not able to “eat bread,” that is, to eat anything. At the same time opposition intensifies with accusations of demon […]

The Magnificat “My Soul Magnifies the Lord” Luke 1:46-55 This song has been used by the church, almost daily, since the late fourth century. It has been sung, prayed and preached for centuries. In the text of Luke, it is one of three songs. The other two are by Elizabeth (1:42-45) and Zechariah (1:68-79). Mary’s […]

Text: Luke 1:46-55. Blessed is Mary—she will bear the one who will reverse the curse. Blessed is the cosmos—the burden it now carries will be lifted because of the one who reverses the curse. Blessed are we—we are invited to participate in the kingdom of God through which the curse is reversed. The Magnificat is […]