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Podcast: 2026-03-01: Pastor Mark Quist – Discipleship: Service – You Must Be Born Again! (Simply Surrender)

2026-03-01: Pastor Mark Quist – Discipleship: Service – You Must Be Born Again! (Simply Surrender) A man named Nicodemus comes to Jesus under cover of darkness seeking to know more about Jesus. He is curious. And Jesus responds by saying, “Flesh gives birth to flesh. Spirit gives birth to spirit. Nicodemus, you must be born again.” Knowing Jesus… How? Seems to me, when people seek Jesus (including me) they want to know more about him. Bible Studies, Church, Spiritual Disciplines, Discipleship Programs… all good in knowing about Jesus. Can grow informational knowing of Jesus. Yet, these things can become the ‘thing’ themselves. This seems to be more ‘flesh giving birth to flesh.’ What seems to be most needed, essential, and necessary is to have an encounter with Jesus. To know Jesus is when ‘Spirit gives birth to spirit.’ This is what it means to be ‘born again.’ I wonder if this is what Jesus’ is getting at in the Book of Revelation to the church of Ephesus (to us today) when he says, “You’ve forsaken your first love.” It’s a good pursuit to know more about Jesus. But what is essential, needed and necessary is to have an encounter with Jesus, to be born again, because ‘Spirit gives birth to spirit.’ Let’s talk about this some more Sunday, as we seek not to (only) know more about Jesus, rather, to encounter Jesus. What does that look like? (John 3:1-21 as a base text) See you Sunday, Pastor Mark

Podcast: 2026-02-22: Pastor Mark Quist – Discipleship: Salvation/Service – By Grace, Through Faith, We Are Saved and Faith Without Works Doesn’t Look Like Faith

2026-02-22: Pastor Mark Quist – Discipleship: Salvation/Service – By Grace, Through Faith, We Are Saved and Faith Without Works Doesn’t Look Like Faith We are people of faith. “We are people on a journey, following where the Master walks… in the shadow of the cross, in the power of the empty tomb, taking up the cross of Christ, moving on from death to life… to the table of the Lord, fed by water and the Word, rising up to life reborn, speaking peace, accepting scorn…” Words to a song I appreciate. Faith is confidence in something hoped for, an assurance of what you may not now see. By faith, it is seen. I love it when faith comes around as a focus of our Scripture teaching, preaching, and meditations. It’s foundational to seeking God and walking with God. For Sunday, we will walk through Hebrews 10-12. Highlighting the foundation, nature, and expressions of faith in God. If you could read these three verses and follow the flow of teaching. make note of the movements, how the writer moves from here to there and builds on the understanding of faith. After reading and following the flow of teaching there, what would you say is FAITH? See you Sunday, Pastor Mark

Podcast: 2026-02-15: Pastor Mark Quist – Discipleship: Salvation – Victory over Sin, Death, and Hell!

2026-02-15: Pastor Mark Quist – Discipleship: Salvation – Victory over Sin, Death, and Hell! Since September we have been on a focused Discipleship Journey through the heart of the Gospel, painting the Biblical Worldview: ‘In the beginning… Shalom!’ ‘Not the way it’s supposed to be!’ ‘In Christ, the now but not yet!’ And now we are entering, ‘Making all things new!’ Jesus is making all things new through the Spirit’s power and authority and through the invitation to his people to join him. This brings up the issue of authority. Does Jesus have authority over our lives? The Old and New Testament are filled with instruction, wisdom, guidance on what it looks like for Jesus to have authority over our lives. Are we cooperative with God in this work of transformation and renewal of God making all things new for our thoughts, attitudes, desires, words, and actions? The Gospel writers understood Jesus authority and power. His Lordship. Matthew demonstrates this powerfully in chapter 8 of the Gospel with back to back to back stories demonstrating that Jesus is the Messiah, Lord of heaven and earth. God’s people for hundreds of years had been anticipating the Messiah’s arrival, recognized by having authority over three things: nature, sickness, and the demonic. Read Matthew chapter 8 and there it is plainly to see and recognize. Jesus is the Messiah, he is Lord of all. Does he have authority over you? What are the signs of Jesus Lordship? Can you see evidence? See you Sunday, Pastor Mark

Podcast: 2026-02-08: Pastor Mark Quist – Discipleship: Salvation – Resurrection! Welcome Back!  From Death to Life 

2026-02-08: Pastor Mark Quist – Discipleship: Salvation – Resurrection! Welcome Back!  From Death to Life  Do you believe in the resurrection? It’s an astounding belief. Easy to doubt and be skeptical, for we know that ‘dead means dead.’ And to believe in the resurrection is to believe that there has only been one exception to the truth, ‘dead means dead.’ The claims of Jesus. Believing in the resurrection of Jesus engages faith, but is far from irrational. We can explore this together Sunday. Do you ever feel there is more to life, a longing, a sense that there is something more? That something more inkling and sense is the reality of the resurrection. We are and the world is meant for something more. So, Do you believe in the resurrection? A real body resurrection? If you don’t, the Christian faith is all vanity… If you do, life is transformed now and later, for today, tomorrow, and the ever after. It’s the central historic event of all history. Do you believe it? Read 1 Corinthians 15 and ponder the implications of this true, real, authentic, and life altering, transforming event. See you Sunday, Pastor Mark  

Podcast: 2026-02-01: Pastor Mark Quist – Discipleship: Salvation – Redeemed and Reconciled Part 2: God’s grace though the Son, our Holy, Human, Mediator 

2026-02-01: Pastor Mark Quist – Discipleship: Salvation – Redeemed and Reconciled Part 2: God’s grace though the Son, our Holy, Human, Mediator  Texts for Sunday: Job 9:33 and John 3:1-26 Hermetic principles. Been looking into this. Much information available from quick searches that tie this notion to ‘mentalism’ or eastern religions. Yet, there are deep themes around it that resonate with a Biblical Worldview. After all, ‘creation sings, around me rings, the music of the spheres’. After all, everything was created by God, by God’s design, and so, we human beings are always observing God’s world leading us to create theories about God’s world, sometimes accurate, sometimes not so much. Again, God’s design for us, in His image, to engage such things. Why mention this for the week? Our world is built on design – waves, correspondence, polarities, vibrations, rhythms… resignations. As human beings, we too were designed to resonate, to be in relationship and rhythm with God and others. It’s the beauty of being human, created in God’s image when we find this resonation (synchronization) with God. Someone sent me this clip this week and got me thinking about God’s world, life in Christ, discipleship in following Jesus, etc. Watch it, I’ll play it again at the beginning of the message on Sunday. A couple questions to ponder: We were made to resonate in relationship with God.  What does that mean?  How would that look? As 5 asynchronous pendulum clocks move in time to become synchronous with one another, how could this give insight to the following statement: We tend to become the average of our 5 closest friends.   A possible’ hermetic principle’ of human relationships: We tend to become like those we are in close proximity too and engage in the highest amplitude.  What do you think of that?   The ramifications are many for our relationship with God and for discipleship with others. See you Sunday, Pastor Mark