Mark’s Easter account is the strangest of the four: the women find the stone already moved, and run. Pastor Adam preaches it, and Pastor Jim reads the gospel in his late brother’s Easter tie, answering what difference resurrection makes with someone specific in mind.

The disciples find Jesus praying alone and tell him everyone is looking for him. Pastor Adam builds on what he does next, which is not to go back, and on an agenda set in solitude before anyone asked for it.

Mark 1:1-8, and the claim that the gospel loses something… read more

Mark 14:3-9. A woman breaks a flask of pure nard… read more