Welcome to St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. St. Mark’s is an historic congregation of the ELCA that unconditionally welcomes all people of all ethnicities, genders, identities and backgrounds. Please join us for worship on Sundays at 8:30 or 10:30 am with inspiring music and talented musicians as we gather to grow together […]
March 29, 2026, Sunday of the Passion / Palm Sunday
“Are you the king…?” The governor, the leaders, and the crowd wonder as they surround Jesus. From his arrival into Jerusalem on a humble donkey with palms waving, all the way to the Place of the Skull, where darkness covered the cross where Jesus was crucified and the earth shook—somewhere between leaves of green, and the […]
View the Sermon (PDF)March 25, 2026, Fifth Lent Midweek Service of Word and Prayer
The theme of this year’s Lenten midweek prayer is “Holy Conversations with Jesus.” The Sunday lectionary for Lent reveals Jesus in conversation with friends, foreigners, adversaries, as well as those who grieve in the face of death. In tonight’s reading from John, Jesus talks with Martha and Mary saying, “I am the resurrection and the […]
View the Sermon (PDF)March 22, 2026, Fifth Sunday in Lent
In today’s readings, the prophet Ezekiel prophesies of God breathing new life into dry bones, and Jesus reveals his power over death by raising Lazarus from the dead. To those in exile, displaced by war, and living in the shadows of death, these stories proclaim God’s promise of resurrection. As Paul writes in Romans, “To […]
View the Sermon (PDF)March 18, 2026, Fourth Lent Midweek Service of Word and Prayer
The theme of this year’s Lenten midweek prayer is “Holy Conversations with Jesus.” The Sunday lectionary for Lent reveals Jesus in conversation with friends, foreigners, and even adversaries. In tonight’s reading from John, Jesus encounters a man who was blind from birth. Born without sight the nameless man became first a topic of conversation, later […]
View the Sermon (PDF)March 15, 2026, Fourth Sunday in Lent
Today’s gospel contains the story of a man born blind who was healed by Jesus. He said, “One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.” Jesus declares about himself, “I am the light of the world,” opening us to light in the world’s darkest valleys, light that no darkness can […]
View the Sermon (PDF)March 11, 2026, Third Lent Midweek Service of Word and Prayer
The theme of this year’s Lenten midweek prayer is “Holy Conversations with Jesus.” The Sunday lectionary for Lent reveals Jesus in conversation with friends, foreigners, and even adversaries. In tonight’s reading from John, Jesus encounters a Samaritan woman at the well and offers her “living water.” Changed by her conversation with him, she left her […]
View the Sermon (PDF)March 8, 2026, Third Sunday in Lent
Jesus promises the woman at the well the gift of an internal spring within her, “gushing up to eternal life”. When presented with this gift she says, “Sir, give me this water so I may never be thirsty…” Jesus promises us through life challenges that we can trust in the inward dwelling of the Spirit […]
View the Sermon (PDF)March 4, 2026, 2nd Lent Midweek Service of Prayer
The theme of this year’s Lenten midweek prayer is “Holy Conversations with Jesus.” The Sunday lectionary for Lent reveals Jesus in conversation with both friends and adversaries. In tonight’s reading from John, Nicodemus comes to Jesus by night with questions much as we might seek Jesus at night with our own fears and questions. We […]
View the Sermon (PDF)March 1, 2026, Second Sunday in Lent
During Lent we journey with Jesus and his church around the world, and today we remember how Jesus told Nicodemus that he must be born of water and Spirit. In Holy Baptism we are a given new birth as children of God. As God made a covenant with Abraham, in baptism God promises to raise […]
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