When Jesus talks about hell, we can bring all kinds of assumptions about the place he’s describing and how we can avoid ending up there. This week we look at Jesus’ teaching on dealing with sin (“if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off”) and explore the dimensions of death and life it presents. Ultimately Jesus offers not a program of sin management but a paradigm of the moral universe, one in which physical actions have spiritual consequences and open paths to move steadily toward death or toward life. Deacon Lisa Elmers teaches from Mark 9:38-50.