Messages

This Sunday we continue our walk through the Gospel of Mark, learning to ask the text questions to become better Bible readers ourselves. This week we look at how in a single passage two things are happening and a single moment ties them together in Mark 6:30-44 as Jesus shows compassion to the multitude.

This Sunday we continue walking through the Gospel of Mark chapter-by-chapter to become better Bible readers. This week we open to Mark 5:1-34, and take a comparative approach to the text between the two stories that are written in the passage. How does comparing and contrasting stories teach us about Jesus and ourselves?

This morning we continue our walk through the Gospel of Mark chapter-by-chapter with the purpose of becoming more literate Bible readers. Today we open to Mark 4:35-41 where Jesus calms the storm. In this passage 4 questions are asked: how do they challenge us as believers in Christ?

This Sunday we continue our chapter-by-chapter walk through the Gospel of Mark. Along the way we learn practical ways to be in our Bibles more and read them with intentionality. Today, we open to Mark 3:22-30 to allow ourselves to be challenged by difficulty texts that we often gloss over.

This Sunday we continue our chapter-by-chapter walk through the Gospel of Mark. Along the way we learn practical ways to be in our Bibles more and read them with intentionality. Today, we open to Mark 2:1-12 to see how to find the importance in a passage, particular how Jesus has the authority to forgive.

This Sunday we begin the New Year by opening the Gospel of Mark. We will walk through the Gospel chapter by chapter each week and take a deep dive into how we read the scripture for ourselves. Today we open to Mark 1:1-13 to see how God is the Promise Keeper.

Happy New Year from First Presbyterian Church of Griffin. We hope that this year in 2026, the Lord will invite you to a year of deeper transformation through the reading of the Word. This morning Pastor Austin opens to Psalm 119:105-112, where we see the importance of the Scriptures for our Spiritual Formation.

This Sunday is the second Sunday in Advent where we continue exploring how the Advent of Jesus is a compelling subversion to society norms. This Sunday we open to Luke 1:26-33 and see how God used the coming of Christ to overturn socio-economic status.

This Sunday is the first Sunday in Advent, the season on the liturgical calendar that marks the anticipation of the arrival of The Christ Child, Jesus. We celebrate and honor our Lord this Sunday by looking at the way in which the Lord subverts societal understanding of beauty from Luke 2:1-12.