Fall colors, jars of perfume, and a beautiful act of devotion highlight this episode. A woman pours out something expensive and gets called wasteful for it. Jesus defends her and says what she did will be told wherever the gospel goes. This week we talk about why her worth doesn’t rest on what she produced, how that cuts against what our culture says a woman’s worth is built on, and what it looks like to pour ourselves out in view of God’s mercy.

In 1988, a retired NASA engineer sold three million copies of a book explaining exactly when the Rapture would happen. When the date passed, he recalculated. This week we start there and get to what Mark 13 actually asks of us — hold fast to Jesus, wait well, preach the gospel. Plus how to wait without being anxious about it, because part of being disappointingly normal is not getting swept up in the minutia.

Why do people land in such different places culturally and politically? This week we get into Jonathan Haidt's work on intuitive reasoning — the elephant and the rider — and the six moral foundations that shape how we actually make moral judgments, usually before we've reasoned about anything at all. And then we consider how Jesus subverts and fulfills every one of those values. Your heart will sing as you hear how he changes everything. Give this a listen and you will be challenged, encouraged, and blessed