“Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld.” But how are we to interpret this verse?  Does any person, even

Christ's Resurrection wasn’t just a demonstration of raw power it was the most unbelievable act of Love of all time, he included me and you in this miracle.  We don’t just celebrate the power of God

We added a Good Friday service this year for, what we can tell, is the first in our 184 year history (since we already have a traditional 12-3pm service).  Dr. Christiane Meyer gave the inaugural sermon

In Phil 2 we have the most poignant distillation of humility displayed anywhere, at anytime, by God himself.  It is poetic and beautiful description of the Incarnation, alongside an account of Jesus’ humble journey to crucifixion,

 In our passage today we have one of the most dramatic and straight forward words from Jesus about his identity as God in flesh. Often he spoke in parables, and many times after performing miracles he

In our epistle reading today speaks of two covenants. One trusts God at his word and leads to freedom.  The other tries to reach God through self effort and leads to slavery. Lets look at each

What does it mean that the gospel is to the Jew first and then to the Gentile?  A look at the Canaanite woman gives us some insight.

I want to talk with you today about separating yourself away from the hurry of normal life to spend time with God.  This was the practice of Jesus during his earthly ministry.  We see it here

Let’s look at the soil and view this in light of how we might be honest with ourselves, not with the initial acceptance of God’s Word, most of us have done that, but in the application

And when the time came for their purification according to the Law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord (as it is written in the Law of the Lord,

Unity is important and this unity is achieved by realizing the different callings are unique to each person.  There will be as many unique mix of gift sets at Mariners’ Church as there are people in

This morning we are going to look at what is this living sacrifice God is calling us to here.  But first, he tells us the why right up front.  Because it his spiritual worship, or your