This Spring Union University Press released its latest book, Recognizing and Responding to the Messiah: Sermons on the Gospel of Mark, edited by Justin Wainscott and myself. For quite a few years, chapel services at Union have included a series through a book of the Bible. We call this our WORD series. This book contains the sermons preached through the Gospel of Mark in the Spring of 2023. The title comes from my contention in the first sermon that Mark’s Gospel seeks to cause us to ask to primary questions: Who is this Jesus? And, what will you do with Him? My fellow contributors include Matthew Albanese, Frank Anderson, Joe Ball, Michael Garrett, Brad Green, Robert Lane, Hal Poe, & Reginald Taylor.

We hope the book will help anyone reading the gospel of Mark, as well as serving as a resource for others who are planning to preach through this gospel. Each sermon takes a larger section of text and shows the personality and approach of each preacher.