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Mark 1:1-8

In this first Sunday in Advent, we look at Mark’s introduction as Mark begins to tell us how Jesus comes to fix a broken world. The idea of fixing a broken world will be the theme for Advent this year as we look at how the world is broken and how it is that Jesus fixes it. In order to do that, we look at some Easter eggs from the Hebrew Bible as Mark sets us for the coming of Jesus in this weird character of John the Baptistizer. As we will soon learn, far from being the weird aesthetic that we imagine with his camel hair shirt and his bizarre diet, John is doing something much more interesting and revolutionary that we miss. Learn how eating grasshoppers and honey does not mean what you have always thought or been taught it means and what this has to say about the vision of a new beginning Mark wants to present to us.