❖ Video ❖ Audio Both Ups and Downs with Jesus (Mark Mark 9:2-13) Mari Ikeda A. The mountaintop experience (2-8) 2 After six days Jesus took Peter, James and John with him and led them up a high mountain, where they were all alone. There he was transfigured before them. 3 His clothes became dazzling white, whiter than anyone in the world could bleach them. 4 And there appeared before them Elijah and Moses, who were talking with Jesus. 5 Peter said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three shelters―one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.” 6 (He…

❖ Video ❖ Audio Who Am I in Your Life? (Psalm 74, Mark 8:27-38) Andy Nagahara 1. We look to people instead of God (1-11, Mark 8:33) 0 A <maskil> of Asaph. 1 Why have you rejected us forever, O God? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture? 2 Remember the people you purchased of old, the tribe of your inheritance, whom you redeemed– Mount Zion, where you dwelt. 3 Turn your steps toward these everlasting ruins, all this destruction the enemy has brought on the sanctuary. 4 Your foes roared in the place where you met with us; they set up their standards as signs. 5 They behaved like men…

❖ Video ❖ Audio Something More Important Than Our Life (Mark 8:27-9:1) Mari Ikeda A. Jesus corrects our expectation (27-33) 27 Jesus and his disciples went on to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked them, “Who do people say I am?” 28 They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.” 29 “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?” Peter answered, “You are the Messiah.” 30 Jesus warned them not to tell anyone about him. 31 He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the…

❖ Video ❖ Audio The Bad Sleep Well (Psalm 73) Andy Nagahara A. Can God be trusted? 1. The mistrust in our hearts toward God (1-3) A psalm of Asaph. 1 Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart. 2 But as for me, my feet had almost slipped; I had nearly lost my foothold. 3 For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. 2. “The bad sleep well” (4-12) 4 They have no struggles; their bodies are healthy and strong. 5 They are free from the burdens common to man; they are not plagued by human ills. 6 Therefore pride is…

❖ Video ❖ Audio We Are Between Perfect and Imperfect (Mark 8:22-26, 1Corinthians 13) Mari Ikeda A. Imperfect healing? 22 They came to Bethsaida, and some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him. 23 He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. When he had spit on the man’s eyes and put his hands on him, Jesus asked, “Do you see anything?” 24 He looked up and said, “I see people; they look like trees walking around.” 25 Once more Jesus put his hands on the man’s eyes. Then his eyes were opened, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly. 26 Jesus sent him home, saying, “Don’t even go into the…