Of Silver Bullets and Black Helicopters: The Inauguration, Continuation, and Consummation of the Kingdom of God (Mark 4:26-34)
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Date:
10/6/2019
Type:
Sunday Sermon
Price:
FREE
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Of Silver Bullets and Black Helicopters: ?The Inauguration, Continuation, and Consummation of the Kingdom of God ?Mark 4:26-34?
Building for the Future?
Metaphors of the Kingdom?
Introduction?
The Growing Seed (26-29)?
The Mustard Seed (cf. Ezek 17:22-24)?
Application?
Of Silver Bullets – Gradualism (cf. Phil 3:12-14)??The parable of the Growing Seed teaches that the kingdom is like a seed planted in the field: it begins in the blade, proceeds to the head, then the full grain and harvest. Slowly, almost imperceptibly, the kingdom grows. Parable of the growing seed encourages us to patience and steady plodding. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________?
Of Black Helicopters – Optimism (cf. Is 42:1-4)??The parable of the Mustard Seed encourages us to look forward in _____________________________________ – the long-term future of the Kingdom of God is bright. The kingdom shall be like a great tree in which the birds of the air make their nests. ?
Conclusion
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Stuart Bryan attends St. David's Anglican Church in Post Falls, Idaho and is currently an STM student at Trinity Anglican Seminary in Ambridge, PA. For 17 years, he served as senior pastor of Trinity Church in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. He and his wife, Paige, have been married since college and have been blessed with seven grown children (four biological and three adopted internationally) and many... read more
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