Matthew 5:27-30, on the Sunday before Martin Luther King Jr. Day — noted as part of this church's own American Baptist heritage of some ninety years.
John 1:1-5 closes three weeks looking at the infant Jesus through four gospel writers — Matthew's Jewish Messiah, Mark's almost Homeric hero, and now John's Word.
Mark 1:1-8, and the claim that the gospel loses something when it is stripped of imagination. The Bible is an epic story, and it is calling you into it.
Matthew, opened by way of Ricky Bobby saying grace in Talladega Nights — on how we pray to the Jesus we find most convenient.
Mark 14:3-9. A woman breaks a flask of pure nard over Jesus' head, is scolded for the waste, and is told she has done a beautiful thing.
Luke 7:40-50. Two debtors, one forgiven ten times more than the other, and the woman washing Jesus' feet with her tears while Simon offered no water at all.