Sermons on San Marcos 7:14:

Did You Wash Your Hands?

Contributed by Howard Gunter on Sep 2, 2018

Understanding Traditions in the Church

Weekend Message/Devotion Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 September 2, 2018 How many times have you heard: “Okay everyone, wash your hands and get to the table, dinner is served!”? Those instructions had nothing to do with religion or religious practice, did they? Washing our hands before eating is a ...read more

Scripture: Mark 7:1-8, Mark 7:14-15, Mark 7:21-23, Isaiah 29:13

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Cleaning Up Our Act

Contributed by Geoffrey Foot on Sep 2, 2018

We all know about protecting our natural environment and the problems we have created in the past but what about moral pollution? Our Sin is moral pollution how can we counteract it?

CLEANING UP OUR ACT. MARK 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23. Over the years we have become more and more concerned about protecting our natural environment. Once such concern was expressed by a few scientists and they were regarded as alarmists. The rest of the world thought that our earth was so vast and ...read more

Scripture: Mark 7:1-23, 1 Corinthians 13:1-8, James 1:17-27

When The Law Was Being Quoting At Jesus, How Did This A Type Of Bullying?

Contributed by Gordon Mcculloch on Nov 29, 2016

Keeping tradition is a good thing, but not always. Some use it to put others down, or raise themselves up, either way it is bullying. How do we handle this? How did Jesus handle this?

This sermon was delivered to St Oswald’s, Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland on the 2nd September 2012; St Oswald’s is a Scottish Episcopal Church in the Dioceses of Glasgow and Dumfries. The readings for today are: Song of Solomon 2:8-13 Psalm 45:1-2, 7-10 Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-9 Psalm 15 James ...read more

Scripture: Mark 7:1-23

Denomination: Episcopal

The Heart Of Your Problem Is The Problem Of Your Heart Series

Contributed by David Dykes on Jan 25, 2018

The reason we like traditions, whether it’s washing your hands or dressing up for church, is that it is something we can do outwardly and feel good about ourselves.

INTRODUCTION Part of this message is about traditions. Why do we do the things we do? Sometimes we do them because we’ve always done them the same way and we never questioned the reason. Growing up, I had exactly the same breakfast every morning: two fried eggs, bacon, grits, and toast. And the ...read more

Scripture: Mark 7:1-23

Denomination: Baptist

Following Jesus: Mark 7 Series

Contributed by Scott Bayles on Dec 19, 2022

Part 8 of 16: In this series, we follow Jesus chapter-by-chapter through the Gospel of Mark. This is Mark 7.

Following Jesus (8) Scott Bayles, pastor Scripture: Mark 7:1-23 Blooming Grove Christian Church: 2/19/2017 If you’ve been with us all this year, you know we’ve been talking about all about Jesus—seeing him more clearly and following him more nearly. As we’ve followed him through the Gospel of ...read more

Scripture: Mark 7:1-23

Denomination: Christian Church

Wash Your Heart

Contributed by Rich O' Toole on Mar 8, 2023

The Pharisees accuse Jesus and His Disciples of breaking traditions

Wash Your Heart Mark 7:1-23 When the prophet Samuel was sent to Jesse’s house to anoint a king for Israel, we are told that the Lord said to Samuel… 1 Samuel 16:7 "Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the LORD does not see as man sees; for ...read more

Scripture: Mark 7:1-23

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Critically Important Contrasts Series

Contributed by David Owens on Jul 17, 2023

In this section of the Gospel of Mark, Mark presents some critically important contrasts between Jesus and the Scribes and Pharisees as Jesus clarifies the difference between truth and tradition, and between inward and outward righteousness.

Introduction: A. Many years ago, the Washington Post carried a story about a man who was working on his farm in Wisconsin, when suddenly something dropped out of the sky into a field near him. 1. The object was blue, frozen, and mysterious. 2. Excitedly, the man chopped off a huge chunk, put it in ...read more

Scripture: Mark 7:1-23

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Cleaning Services

Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jul 18, 2023

We have been forgiven in Christ for the sins that we have committed and confessed. But the underlying condition out of which these sins arise - what’s to be done about that?

“Out, damned spot!” may be one of the most widely recognized lines Shakespeare ever wrote. I wonder why? In a more innocent age it might have been for the forbidden thrill of saying “damn.” But of course that doesn’t apply any more, does it. It’s one of the milder epithets available. If that’s the ...read more

Scripture: Mark 7:1-23

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

12 Keys To The Kingdom Of God System Series

Contributed by Justin Steckbauer on Feb 24, 2024

Examining the parables of Jesus to fit the puzzle pieces together of how the Kingdom of God system practically works.

How does the Kingdom of God system work? The Lord Jesus taught one main message while he walked the Earth: The Kingdom of God. He taught it through parables. So if we look at the parables, and try to fit them together, we can find the basic instructions for how to live in God's world system. ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 13:31-32, Mark 4:21-25, Luke 11:5-13, Mark 7:14-23, Matthew 20:1-16  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Salvation Army

Morbid Anatomy: The Root Of Sin - Mark 7:14-23 Series

Contributed by Darrell Ferguson on Oct 23, 2023

Why did God make some food unclean, and now we can eat them? This message goes into the important and often misunderstood concept of uncleanness

Mark 7:14 Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand this. 15 Nothing outside a man can make him ‘unclean’ by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a man that makes him ‘unclean.’” 17 After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his ...read more

Scripture: Mark 7:14-23, Matthew 15:10-20

That Which Defiles Series

Contributed by Maurice Mccarthy on Mar 18, 2024

There are things that you can take in that won't defile you, there are things you can let out that will.

That Which Defiles PPT 1 Message title (That which defiles, - that which corrupts the heart) PPT 2-6 text Mark 7:14 After He called the crowd to Him again, He began saying to them, "Listen to Me, all of you, and understand: Mark 7:15 there is nothing outside the man which can defile him if ...read more

Scripture: Mark 7:14-23

Denomination: Pentecostal

The Commandments Of Life

Contributed by William Baeta on Dec 1, 2000

“Hear now, O Israel, the decrees and laws I am about to teach you. Follow them so that you may live and may go in and take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you. Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract

Theme: The Commandments of life Text: Deut. 4:1-2, 6-9; James 1:17-27; Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 The revelations being made at the National Reconciliation Commission gives us reason to really examine ourselves and see ourselves as we really are. We have always been known as a nation of very ...read more

Scripture: Mark 7:1-23, Deuteronomy 4:1-8

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Twenty-Second Sunday In Ordinary Time, Year B - Dirty Hands And Dirty Thoughts

Contributed by Paul Andrew on Jul 29, 2024

“Nothing ever happens in the world that does not first happen inside a mind...”

An illustration for those who deny the reality of concupiscence: A visitor was once being shown around an art gallery. The gallery contained some beautiful paintings which were universally acknowledged to be masterpieces. At the end of the tour the visitor said, "I don't think much of ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 4:8-9, Mark 7:1-23

Denomination: Catholic

"no Outcastes"

Contributed by Ken Sauer on Aug 15, 2024

A sermon about living into the all inclusive love of God.

“No Outcastes” Mark 7:1-8, 14-23 When I was interning in the News Department of a Television Station during college, the Bureau Chief gave me a nasty assignment. There was someone running for office, he must have already been in government somehow, and she wanted me to dig up dirt on him. She ...read more

Scripture: Mark 7:1-23

Denomination: United Methodist

¿debe El Cristiano Guardar La Ley? (Segunda Parte) Series

Contributed by Richard Tow on Aug 23, 2024

¿Por qué los cristianos parecen guardar los Diez Mandamientos excepto el sábado? Este mensaje aborda la diferencia entre la forma en que el Nuevo Testamento trata las leyes morales y ceremoniales del Antiguo Testamento.

Estamos respondiendo a la pregunta: ¿Debe un cristiano guardar la ley? La respuesta bíblica es sí y no. Debemos guardar los mandamientos morales que tienen su raíz en la naturaleza inmutable de Dios. Dios es santo. Dios es un ser moral que hace que las personas sean moralmente ...read more

Scripture: Luke 5:36-39, Galatians 1:6-9, Mark 7:14-23, Matthew 5:21-29, Romans 14:4-6, Hebrews 10:24, Acts 20:7, 1 Corinthians 16:1-3, Hebrews 4:1-10, Exodus 20:8-11, Genesis 2:7-18, Galatians 5:1-21, Hebrews 8:1-13, Philippians 3:1-3, Colossians 2:16-17  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Charismatic