Continuing our series through the Gospel of Mark, Pastor Daniel Justice unpacks the Parable of the Sower (Mark 4:1-20) and a question every believer eventually faces: how do we make sense of the mixed responses we see to Jesus around us? Through four soils and one sower, Jesus prepares His disciples, and us, to sow faithfully no matter the soil, because the harvest is certain.

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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."

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How does someone end up standing outside a soldier's funeral with a hateful sign, genuinely convinced they're serving God?

That's the opening question of this Memorial Day weekend message — and Mark 2 provides a sobering answer. It doesn't happen overnight. It's a slow drift, usually starting with a good heart and a real desire to honor God. But when religious activity gets untethered from God's actual heart, it produces something cold, self-righteous, and ultimately capable of seeing a broken person as a tool rather than a human being to love.

In Mark 2:23–3:6, Jesus clashes twice with the Pharisees over the Sabbath. Both times, he exposes the same root issue: they've taken something God gave as a gift and turned it into an idol. They've learned the rules, protected the rules, and completely missed the God behind the rules.

Pastor Garrett McCord works through the passage with pastoral honesty — including a story from his own early ministry when he realized he was drifting the same direction — and lands on five sharp questions for self-examination: ways we can be doing all the right things while quietly missing God's heart for people.

The message closes with the Gospel: the Lord of the Sabbath died to give us true rest. And the invitation is still open — "Come to me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest."

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"Jesus at the Table" | Mark 2:13–22 | Pastor Jason Smith FBC Boerne — Gospel of Mark Series

A tax collector in first-century Judea wasn't just unpopular. He was a traitor — a fellow Jew collecting money for Rome, using extortion and power to squeeze his own people. If he walked into your home, it became ceremonially unclean.

Jesus walked up to his booth and said, "Follow me."

In this message from Mark 2:13–22, Pastor Jason Smith traces three scenes that together paint one of the most joyful portraits of Jesus in the Gospels: the calling of Levi, the party that follows, and the confrontation with the Pharisees over fasting. Jesus answers them with two quick illustrations — a patch on old cloth, new wine in old wineskins — that reframe everything. He didn't come to patch dead religion. He brought something entirely new.

The message includes the remarkable story of Dr. Rosaria Butterfield — a tenured professor, committed feminist, and vocal critic of Christianity who encountered a pastor who simply invited her to dinner. Not as a debate. Not as a project. Just dinner. And over two years, the word of God and the warmth of a household that looked like Levi's party changed everything.

The closing question lands quietly but won't let go: are we becoming more like the Pharisees standing outside the feast — or like Jesus at the table?

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Mark 2:1–12 | Pastor Jason Smith FBC Boerne — Gospel of Mark Series

Four men hear that Jesus is back in Capernaum. Their friend is paralyzed. The house is overflowing. So they carry him up to the roof and tear it open.

The crowd expects a healing. Jesus looks at the man and says: "Son, your sins are forgiven."

In this message from Mark 2:1–12, Pastor Jason Smith unpacks why that sentence is either the most important thing Jesus ever said — or the most offensive. The scribes sitting front and center understand the stakes immediately: only God can forgive sins. So either Jesus is blaspheming, or God himself just walked into Peter's house.

The message works through what forgiveness actually costs, why the paralysis was never the deepest problem, and what it means that Jesus sees the faith of those four friends in the chaos and delights in it rather than being irritated by it. It closes with a direct, unhurried word for believers who've quietly convinced themselves that their failures have worn out Jesus's patience.

"Your remaining struggle does not surprise your Savior. There is more grace in him than there is guilt in you."

Preached on Mother's Day 2026.

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We spend a lot of time thinking about what the church is. This week Pastor Jason asks a different question: where is the church going?

From Ephesians 5, we see the church as the purchased bride of Christ — not tolerated, not managed, but loved and died for. And the journey ends not with quiet rest, but with a wedding feast. Revelation 19 pictures heaven as a celebration: feasting, rejoicing, union with the One who gave everything to be with us.

The climax of Scripture — Revelation 22:4 — is four words: "They shall see His face." To be fully known. Fully satisfied. Standing before the One who purchased you.

We're on a journey. And the destination is worth the ride.

Scripture: Ephesians 5:25–27 | Revelation 19:6–9 | Revelation 22:4

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Mark 1:35–45 | Pastor Jason Smith FBC Boerne — Gospel of Mark Series

Everyone is looking for you.

The disciples said it to Jesus like it was breaking news. For most of us, it's just Tuesday.

In this message from Mark 1:35–45, Pastor Jason Smith opens with unusual honesty about his own exhaustion — a week alone in Wyoming with no cell signal, returning to a totaled car and a flooded house — and makes a simple, pastoral case: if Jesus needed to withdraw and pray, how much more do we?

The second half of the passage introduces a man with leprosy. Not just sick — exiled. Cut off from family, community, worship. Required by law to cry out "unclean" if anyone came near. And Jesus, moving against every social and religious boundary of the day, reaches out and touches him.

That touch is the sermon. When Jesus touches the unclean, he doesn't become unclean. They become clean. And that movement — Jesus drawing near to the broken rather than keeping his distance — is exactly what the church remembers at the Lord's Table.

This message was preached on a Lord's Supper Sunday, and the two halves of the passage carry the two movements of the morning beautifully. Worth listening to in full.

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