How do you measure greatness: like the world or like Jesus? What does it look like to live last in a first-place world? And can we trust Jesus’s way of life? In today’s episode, Patrick shares how Mark 9:30–50 reveals Jesus’s upside-down vision of greatness and invites us to trust a kingdom where the last are first. 

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Passages: Mark 9:30-50