04-28-2013 CSI: Jerusalem Part 4- Pastor Mark Rossington

When all the evidence has been collected it's time to start coming up with explanations to how the crime happened. It's the part where investigators make sense of the evidence and have it speak the truth of how the crime happened and have it make logical sense. Now, when investigating the resurrection of Jesus Christ, what are some of the explanations that have been stated about it, and what does the actual evidence say about those? Pastor Mark continues on in the sermon series and talks about some of the prevailing theories about how Jesus rose from the dead that Easter morning. Do they stand up on their own, or do they have faults that don't explain certain key facts? The fourth part in the series can be found right here. 

04-21-2013 CSI: Jerusalem Part 3- Pastor Mark Rossington

After collecting and examining the evidence at a crime the next step in any investigation is to find eye witnesses. They are very important because not only can they shed some light on what happened, but they can also either confirm or conflict the evidence found at crime scenes. Since we are investigating Easter morning and the event that Jesus did rise from the dead, we need to find the people that have seen him before and after he rose, and who was at the grave guarding it from grave robbers. And, as Pastor Mark continues on with the sermon series, it turns out that there are quite a few people that fit that category, and have plenty to say about what happened on that Easter morning. What do they have to say? What do their actions on that day say? The next part in the sermon series on the investigation of Jesus' dead and resurrection can be found right here.

04-14-2013 CSI: Jerusalem Past 2- Pastor Mark Rossington

As crime scene investigators, the place that always needs to be looked is the place where the crime was taken place. It's where clues to what happened are located, and to get a good idea of the victim and possibly the criminal. It's standard procedure for any CSI and police force when a crime has been committed since it's the logical choice. In terms of the previous sermon that Pastor Mark gave, it's now been established that the Bible is a credible source and now we can look at the scene of where Jesus rose from the grave, and see if there are any clues we can find. Is there evidence that it was a person or a group of people, or was it something else? What kind of evidence was there? The second part in the investigation of Easter can be found right here.

04-07-2013 CSI: Jerusalem- Pastor Mark Rossington

If someone were to go up to you and ask you what happened on Easter morning, what would you're answer be? The answer would be that Jesus rose from the grave after three days of his crucifixion, but if someone were to ask you how you know that's true, what would the answer be then? After a while it would be a game of twenty questions, and they would lead back to the Bible and that would go off into a series of questions going nowhere. Exactly, what are the answers? Pastor Mark starts a brand new sermon series investigating Easter and in the first installment talks about how someone would verify the Bible and the events that happened in it. That would be very important since you can't talk about anything else without mentioning the Bible, and if that isn't verified then the whole Christian faith is pointless. That first part in the new sermon series can be found right here.

03-31-2013 Easter- Pastor Mark Rossington

We have finally come to the point in the Resurrection Story where Jesus has finally rose from the grave after three days, and finally beat death on our behalf. That's the part of the story that is the most famous, now, what's the big deal? We hear it all the time around this time of year, but what's the significance of Jesus coming back from the grave? Pastor Mark slightly goes away from a traditional Easter morning sermon, and talks about some of the questions that Easter presents and gives some answers on those. One such question is, how do you know which religion in the world is the true religion? Such questions and answers can be found right here in this very sermon.

03-29-2013 Good Friday- Pastor Mark Rossington

There's one part in the story of Jesus being crucified that doesn't seem like a big deal and it's a little odd that it was even noted in the Bible, and that was where the Temple curtain was torn from top to bottom when Jesus finally died. It's a given that it would have some importance since it was in the Jewish Temple and it was huge and heavy. Is there a bigger significance than we really know? In the sermon that Pastor Mark gives on Good Friday, he talks about the Temple curtain and tells us why it really is a big deal and how it has a huge impact on us today whether we know it or not. That sermon from that gloomy and dark day of Good Friday can be found right here.