Sermon and Worship Resources for the Sixth Sunday after Epiphany   Texts & Discussion: 2 Kings 5:1-14 Psalm 30 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 Mark 1:40-45  Prayer of Thanks for our Salvation Salvation and Wholeness is from you, o Lord, our help and our strength.  May we go forth in the comfort of the knowledge that your hand has saved us; and that you will continue to save us--no matter what may come our way.  Bless us and keep us from falling until we meet in this place of worship again.  Amen.   Download the Featured Sermons and Children's Messages Instant Download for  $2.95 DPS Subscribers: click here to access all resources   Valentine's Day Resources by DPS        Just in time for Lent/Easter Week: Sermons: Repent, and Believe in the Good News, Mark 1:40-45 Rev. Karen A. Goltz   Just Do It, 2 Kings 5:1-14, by Dr. Robert Jacks   Cleanliness is Next to Godlines, Mark 1:40-45 by Rev. Randy L. Quinn    Heart of a Champion, 1 Corinthians 9:24-27, by Rev. Thomas Hall     Children's sermons:   Helping People a children's sermon based on Mark 1:40-45 by Rev. Randy Quinn   God's Olympics, 1Corinthians 9:24-27 by Rev. Frank Schaefer   Sermon Excerpt: Repent, and Believe in the Good News based on Mark 1:40-45 Rev. Karen A. Goltz             “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news.” (Mark 1:15)  It was with these words that Jesus began his ministry early in the first chapter of Mark.  But what does it mean?  What time?  How has it been fulfilled?  How has the kingdom of God come near?  What does it look like?  Repent from what?  And believe in the good news?  What is this good news that we’re supposed to believe in?  That the kingdom of God has come near?  We’ve already pointed out the problem with that.  So what are we supposed to do with all this?             If I seem a little frenetic right now, it’s because I am.  Mark’s gospel does this to me: for five of the last six weeks the lectionary has had us in Mark, and we’re not even out of the first chapter yet!  First Jesus was baptized in the Jordan by John the Baptist, then we took a quick jump over to John’s gospel to see him call Philip and Nathanael.  Then back to Mark’s gospel, where we find out that John the Baptist has been arrested, and Jesus begins his ministry in Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news.”  As he’s passing along the sea of Galilee he sees Simon and Andrew, then also James and John.  Now hold onto your seats because as soon as he sees them he calls them, and they immediately drop what they’re doing and follow him  . . . .    DPS Subscribers: click here to access all resources What is a subscription?  Click here to find out. Download the sermons of the week plus children's messages for $2.95