We are in this series, this is week two, the way of suffering, and we're seeking to harmonize

what the four gospels have to say about Jesus' passion week, about Jesus' deliberate way of suffering,

how he approached his suffering, and we're learning how to figure out what he wants for us

when we go through hardships, what we go, when we go through trials, and we come this week, week two,

to Mark chapter 14, title of my message is something to cry about, something to cry about. When does the

dad gene engage? When does the mom gene engage? I don't know, is it at conception? Is it when you

actually hold your baby in your arms? Is it when you see the ultrasound for the first time or hear

the heartbeat? But at some point, surely, a gene has to snap into place that causes you to do

and say, all the things you wish your parents had not done or said. What is this? Even as they come

out of your mouth, some inner version of your childhood version of you is standing there with

this arm crossed, you're going to tell me, I make a better door than a window, this is the stuff

that comes out of our mouth. I am physically unable to hold a stud finder in my hands without

cracking a joke about how this thing always goes off the moment I touch it. That's a dad gene,

I'm telling you. All the things our parents said to us, we swore we would never say.

One more peep out of you out, turn this car around, don't make me pull this car right over

the side of this road, all these things. How about when I was your age, anything that begins

with when I was your age, right? Or when your child annoyingly says, why? There's only one response

that every parent knows because I said so. Who pays the bills around here? You look at the thermostat

without age, it's like all the things that you just have to say because you're a parent and I think

perhaps the most horrified I've ever been is when I found coming out, I saw it was like slow

motion coming out of my mouth. Stop your crying Linux or all. Yeah, some of you are horrified,

right? Of my parenting skills. Give you something to cry about. Now just context-wise,

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