Read Mark 1:9-13 Crowds have gathered to check out this mad man in the wilderness. But they are not just casual observers, they are responding. Person after person is heading into the river to be baptised by John. John promises them that the Messiah is on the way and the crowds in faithful obedience are getting ready. But then someone different turns…

Read Mark 1:1-8 The book of Mark starts with an odd figure. Hanging out in the wilderness near Judea is this guy wearing camel skins and yelling at people. Now crazy is nothing new, there have been crazy people as long as there have been…well, people. But there’s something different about this guy – people are listening to him. There’s something about…

This week, I was reading a blog post where the author mused “what would Jesus do during this pandemic”, giving me flashbacks to the WWJD bracelets of my teenage years. It got me thinking that the first way to answer this question would be to read what Jesus did.