Sean Gladding presents The Naked Man

That awkward moment when Jesus used an ethnic slur. (Texts referenced: Isaiah 56.3, 7; Genesis 12.3; Mark 7.24-27; Matthew 4.24; Mark 7.28-31)

More than likely, you've heard at least one sermon on "the widow's mite", probably when your church was asking for additional funding for something. But is that an appropriate story for such a purpose? (Texts referenced: Mark 12.41-44; 13.1-2)

All too often, unscrupulous people hide their exploitative behavior behind a thin veneer of respectability. But this is nothing new... (Text referenced: Mark 12.38-40)

Jesus condemns religious people who pass laws that knowingly harm others. (Text referenced: Mark 7.6-13)

Purity culture always leads to judgment and exclusion. Jesus says we're missing the point. (Texts referenced: Mark 7.1-5, 14-15, 17-23)

The gathering wrestles with the question of whether God still heals people today. (Texts referenced: Mark 6.53-56; 5.25-34)

Mark tells Yiftach about the painful memory of abandoning Paul and Barnabas. (Texts referenced: Acts 12.25; 13.4-5, 13; 15.1-6, 22, 35-40; Philemon 24; 2 Timothy 4.11)

The disciples are caught in a storm, their boat being swamped, when a ghostly figure appears...  (Texts referenced: Exodus 33.14-23; 1 Kings 19.9-12; Mark 6.49-52)

Yiftach parts ways with an old friend, then has a difficult night with his new ones. (Texts referenced: Mark 6.45-48; John 6.15)

What do you do when you feel disappointed by or angry at a friend? Perhaps even betrayed? Yiftach is about to find out.