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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. Jun 22

    Sunday Sermon | The Gospel of Mark: Unmet Expectations

    Mark 4:21–34 | Pastor Jason Smith FBC Boerne — Gospel of Mark Series Corrie ten Boom was furious about the fleas. Imprisoned at Ravensbruck, assigned to a barracks crawling with them, it felt like the final evidence that God had abandoned her. Her sister Betsy quoted 1 Thessalonians 5:18 — give thanks in all circumstances — and eventually, reluctantly, Corrie did. Months later she learned the guards had refused to enter Barracks 28 because of the fleas. The very thing she'd raged against had been shielding hundreds of women as they read Scripture together, worshipped, and came to faith in Jesus. At the beginning, all she could see were the fleas. At the end, she saw the hand of God. In this Father's Day message, Pastor Jason Smith opens Mark 4:21–34 — the lamp on the lampstand, the growing seed, and the mustard seed — and works through the question the disciples were quietly carrying: if the kingdom of God is here, why doesn't it look like it? The crowds are shrinking. The opposition is growing. This is not what they expected. Jesus answers with parables that reframe everything. The kingdom isn't hidden — but it requires ears to hear. It grows even when no one can see it. And what looks impossibly small today will one day be the place of refuge for people from every tribe, tongue, and nation on earth. A message for anyone in a season where faithfulness feels fruitless and the harvest seems a long way off. https://www.fbcboerne.org/sermons/ https://www.facebook.com/fbcboerne

    Sunday Sermon | The Gospel of Mark: Unmet Expectations
  2. Jun 1

    Sunday Sermon | The Gospel of Mark: Fan or Follower

    Mark 3:7–19 | Pastor Jason Smith FBC Boerne — Gospel of Mark Series "I would like three dollars worth of Gospel, please. Not too much. Just enough to make me happy, but not so much that I become weird." D.A. Carson wrote that. And it names something most of us carry but rarely say — the quiet desire for the benefits of Jesus without the cost of surrender. In this message from Mark 3:7–19, Pastor Jason Smith traces the moment Mark draws a line between the crowd and true disciples. Thousands have flooded in from across the region — all with real needs, all pressing toward Jesus. And he welcomes them. But in verse 13, the scene shifts. Jesus walks up a mountain. He calls to himself the ones he wanted. And he makes twelve — not just gathers them, makes them — into a new covenant people. The first thing he calls them to is simply this: to be with him. Before preaching. Before authority. Before mission. With him. That order matters. And the sermon unpacks what it means that discipleship is not primarily about obeying rules or accumulating doctrine — it's about knowing Jesus himself, walking with him long enough to begin to look like him, and then being sent as he was sent. The message closes with the remarkable fact that the Gospel traveled from that mountaintop, through ordinary fishermen and zealots and tax collectors, through persecution and migration and kitchen table conversations — all the way to you. "Everywhere you go, you are a sent one." https://www.fbcboerne.org/sermons/ https://www.facebook.com/fbcboerne

    Sunday Sermon | The Gospel of Mark:  Fan or Follower

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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.