The Heart of a Pharisee

Pastor’s Pen,

This Sunday: The Heart of a Pharisee                                                                                        Mark 7:1-37

If you want to make a Bible believing Christian mad, just call him or her a Pharisee! Our concept of Pharisees is that they are all bad. Yet in the New Testament era they were considered the good guys. They were guardians of the law, believed in the resurrection, and professed to keep all the commandments.

If the Pharisees were among Jesus bitterest enemies! Why? Because unlike our Savior they were committed to…tradition. The heart of Pharisee-ism is it substitution of man's tradition for God's Word, and its stress on external conformity rather than internal reality. Him

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We appreciate those who help sanitize our facilities for services each Saturday morning in preparation for Sunday worship as well as those who make it possible for us to ‘live-stream’ on Facebook at 10:45 each Sunday morning, and to post each Sunday’s message on our website (www.fccwylie.org) on Sunday afternoons. 


We continue to hold our Sunday services with all safety protocols and pre-service sanitizing in place. No Sunday school yet, and the nursery is not available.  We will continue following the protocols as outlined by GA-18 guidance.  Face masks, social distancing, no physical contact. We use bulletins printed untouched by human hands, with songs, etc. printed therein, and pre-packaged communion elements. Offering plates are located at the rear, or giving can be done online at www.fccwylie.org.


If you still feel uncomfortable attending, feel free to join our live stream on Facebook, at 10:45 AM, which includes communion and the worship hymns. Or the message is available each Sunday afternoon on our website. (www.fccwylie.org)


The Heart of a Pharisee                                                                                                              Mark 7:1-37


  • The controversy (1-13)

    • The attack
    • The heart of the problem
    • The case example
    • The conclusion
  • The commentary to the multitude (14-16)
    • Explained from a negative perspective 
    • Explained from a positive perspective
  • The clarification to Jesus’ disciples (17-23)
    • The negative side amplified
    • The positive side amplified 
  • The contrast: a Gentile woman of faith (24-37)
    • Faith persistent as seen in the Gentile woman
    • Faith proliferating as seen in the Galilean deaf-mute

 Applications…

The disciples learn: equal opportunity faith in action!

The point: The Person in Whom the faith is placed

Additional applications

                                      PRAYER ITEMS

Rodney Love’s wife Beth—off the ventilator, private room, in rehab 

Kim’s son and mother 

Darla Golden-heart issues

Donna Hancock-severe back pain

Jerry Bostick: wife passed, he is out of the hospital, still weak from COVID


RADIO THIS WEEKEND: 

The airwaves continue to be saturated with advertising about Medicare, and what you don’t know about Medicare can hurt you!  Many people, especially those turning 65, have questions about when and how to enroll. Medicare authority Toni King of tonisays.com joins host Don Hawkins with practical answers to Medicare questions, this weekend on Encouragement Live.

Encouragement Live can be heard Saturday at 7:05 PM central time on American Family Radio (www.afr.net) and on theworshipchannel.org.  Re-broadcast Sunday 9 pm on The Worship Channel.


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