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The Sermons podcast of First Baptist Boerne is where you listen to the latest sermons to find hope and healing in Jesus, deepen your faith, and shine God's light of hope wherever you go.

  1. Recharge | Holy Week 2026: The Offense Of The Cross

    APR 2

    Recharge | Holy Week 2026: The Offense Of The Cross

    The cross is everywhere now, polished into jewelry and framed as tasteful art, but it was never meant to feel safe. During Holy Week, we press into the offense of the cross and ask what we lose when we get too familiar with the most brutal symbol in Christian faith. If you’ve ever wondered why Christians would cherish something so violent, this conversation is an honest place to start. We talk through what crucifixion was designed to do: maximize pain, prolong suffering, and heap public shame on the victim. That historical reality explains why Rome treated the cross with disgust and why early Christians were mocked for worshiping a crucified Savior. We also connect the dots to the Bible’s own language, including the unsettling phrase “hanging on a tree,” and why the apostles keep using it even when “cross” would sound cleaner. From Deuteronomy’s declaration that the hanged man is “accursed” to Hebrews 12:2 where Jesus endures the cross and counts its shame as nothing next to the joy ahead, the storyline is both piercing and hopeful. The cross should offend us because it tells the truth about sin and justice, and it comforts us because Jesus steps into the cursed place to bring salvation on the other side. If this helped you see Good Friday and the crucifixion with fresh clarity, subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave a review. What part of the cross do you find hardest to sit with today? https://www.fbcboerne.org/sermons/ https://www.facebook.com/fbcboerne

    12 min
  2. Sunday Sermon | The Gospel of Mark: The Son of God Who Suffers

    MAR 30

    Sunday Sermon | The Gospel of Mark: The Son of God Who Suffers

    A crowd can sing “Hosanna” with full lungs and still have no idea who they’re praising. That tension sits at the heart of Mark’s Gospel, and it’s why Palm Sunday can turn into “Crucify Him” in just days. We walk through Mark with one guiding question: how can people see Jesus, honor Jesus, even follow Jesus, and still miss the real Jesus?  Pastor Jason Smith traces a theme that Mark repeats on purpose. Demons speak accurate titles like “Son of God,” yet they don’t understand the saving mission. Crowds celebrate miracles and power, but often only for what they can get. Even the disciples are close enough to hear every sermon and witness every sign, yet their hearts stay foggy. Mark 8 brings that fog into focus through a strange miracle: a blind man healed in two stages, a living parable of spiritual blindness and partial sight.  Then the hinge moment hits. Peter confesses, “You are the Christ,” and immediately tries to correct Jesus when Jesus says the Son of Man must suffer, be rejected, and be killed. That’s the danger Mark exposes: we don’t always reject Jesus outright. Sometimes we try to reshape Him into the kind of king who fixes our circumstances while avoiding the Savior who confronts our sin. The story drives to the cross, where an unexpected witness finally sees clearly and says what the whole book has been building toward: “Truly this man was the Son of God.”  If you’ve ever felt torn between what you want Jesus to do and what Jesus says He came to do, this message is for you. Subscribe for more, share this with a friend who’s asking hard questions about faith, and leave a review with your biggest takeaway. https://www.fbcboerne.org/sermons/ https://www.facebook.com/fbcboerne

    33 min

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The Sermons podcast of First Baptist Boerne is where you listen to the latest sermons to find hope and healing in Jesus, deepen your faith, and shine God's light of hope wherever you go.