Sunday Sermon · Sep 30, 2026

Are You Entertained by What Jesus Died to Forgive?

Are You Entertained by What Jesus Died to Forgive?

Pastor Mark Ivey

36 min

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About this episode

About this episode

We say the name of Jesus is powerful. But how we treat that name the rest of the week shapes what it means to uswhen we speak it. In Part 2 of The Unusual, Mark Ivey teaches on honoring the name of Jesus — and on the healingpower that name still carries today.
He asks a question that’s hard to shake: if we’re entertained by the very things Jesus died to forgive, what does thatdo to us? When His name is common in what we watch and listen to, it becomes common and powerless when wepray it. From there, the message turns to the miraculous: the name of Jesus was meant to spread the gospel and themiraculous, not to be a “Jesus fix” a couple of times a month. Mark Ivey shares the true story of Dwayne Miller, apastor who lost his voice to a virus and had his voice restored mid-sentence while teaching Psalm 103 on healing.Divine healing, he says, did not end in the first century. If Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, the samehealer is here today. And whatever pit you find yourself in — sin, emotional, physical, or the voices you can’t silence —there is a name above every pit.
📖 Scripture: Psalm 103 · Exodus 20 · Hebrews 13 · Mark 16
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