The Mirror And The Mould
Last Sunday’s sermon was preached by Brother Kevin with the title “The Mirror And The Mould” (Mark 5:21-43) . The sermon and the whole service can be watched on our WIC YouTube Channel. This Father's Day, we're not looking at God as our Heavenly Father — we're looking at an earthly one. Jairus was the archisunagogos of Capernaum, the synagogue ruler — a man who held the kind of civic and religious authority that made him, in modern terms, equal parts mayor, judge, and senior pastor. His very name meant "he enlightens." He was the keeper of the light in his town. And yet none of that status could save his dying twelve-year-old daughter — a girl standing at the very threshold of adulthood, with everything Jairus had poured into her about to come to fruition. That's the Mold — what Jairus built, taught, and shaped in his daughter, and the identity he built for himself as a man of influence. But fatherhood eventually brings every man to a wall his title can...