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There is an age old story here. This is the story of what happens when a young man - or any person really! - hangs out in a place where he shouldn’t have been hanging out and looks at someone he shouldn’t have been looking at. This sermon seeks to examine through that story the power of lust, the destruction of lust, and the power of love, which conquers lust. Listen in!
There is a great irony when it comes to Mark's account of Jesus' temptation. The same time he talks about temptation, he creates one. You can see people falling under the weight of that temptation everywhere if you look carefully for it. What temptation is that? The temptation to believe that because Mark's message is short it's also small - to rush right past what he says. This sermon fights back against that temptation. It seeks to reveal the heart and core of Mark's short, but major message on Jesus' temptation.