In this week’s message, we enter the wilderness—the place where things fall apart, where life feels uncertain, and where wild things roar. But as Mark 1:1–5 reminds us, the good news begins in the wild. It’s in that uncomfortable space where John the Baptist appears, calling people to repent, confess, and prepare the way of the Lord.

Drawing parallels to Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, this sermon reflects on how God often does God’s best work in the very places we’d rather avoid. The wilderness teaches us to cry for the world, to repent from our false comforts, and to hope that if God meets us in the wild, those places won’t be wild forever.