This week we start a sermon series on the Gospel of mark. Mark is the shortest of all four gospels and there is a really urgency about how he writes. In it Jesus always seems to being going somewhere and doing something. One of Mark’s favourite words is “immediately”. But don’t think you know everything that mark is going to say for in Mark 1:1-15 he starts with a host of surprises! Even having read the gospels for 40 years I was surprised by how Mark starts his gospel.

Outline:

Surprise, surprise

1. Surprise #1 God’s prophet
2. Surprise #2 God’s outsider
3. Surprise #3 God’s son
4. Surprise #4 God’s message