Nancy DeMas Walgamoos says there's so much need around us.

People are desperate for family. They're desperate for connection. You're desperate to belong.

And Jesus came to redeem alienated, isolated people and to put them in families.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walggemann, author of Adorned.

For January 22nd, 2025, I'm Dana Gresh. Do you ever feel like everybody needs something from you?

That others crowd around you needing your time or attention?

If so, you're in good company. Jesus knew what that was like.

Nancy talked with a group of women's ministry leaders about the way Jesus engaged with the crowds.

As we listen, I think you'll get a new heart of compassion for those you are called to serve.

Verse 21 of Mark 5, and we're just going to skim the surface of this.

You can get back into it later to get more on your own.

When Jesus had crossed

again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about him. Sometimes people,

by the way, want to know, like, what's your Bible study method? Let me just say, I've never

been to seminary. I don't know Greek. I don't know Hebrew. I have learned a little bit about how

to use some tools, which are helpful for people like me who don't know those languages. But, you know, my method is really,

really simple. It's you basically park in the passage, you read it again and again and again and again and again,

and again and again, and again, and again, you get it, and sometimes I'll memorize the passage, but I will meditate on it. I'm looking at it from every angle.

But one of the first things I do is just look for words or phrases that are repeated,

because that says to me there's something to be noticed here.

Well, something to be noticed in this passage is the multiple references to the crowd.

In fact, I've highlighted those references in the Gospel of Mark because

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