Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Brad.

Our reading titled The Gospel in Unexpected Places was written by Adam R. Holes.

Recently, I found myself someplace I'd seen in movies and on TV more times than I could count.

Hollywood, California.

There in the foothills of Los Angeles, those enormous white letters marched proudly across that famous hillside,

as I viewed them from my hotel window.

Then, I noticed something else. Down to the left was a

prominent cross. I'd never seen that in a movie. And the moment I left my hotel room, some students

from a local church began to share Jesus with me. We might sometimes think of Hollywood as only the epicenter of worldliness,

in utter contrast with God's kingdom. Yet clearly Christ was at work there, catching me by surprise

with his presence. The Pharisees were consistently surprised by where Jesus turned up.

He didn't hang out with the people they expected.

Instead, Mark chapter 2, verses 13 through 17 tells us he spent time with tax collectors and sinners.

People whose lives practically screamed unclean.

Yet, there Jesus was, among those who needed him most.

More than 2,000 years later, Jesus continues to plant his message of hope and salvation in unexpected places, among the most unexpected of people.

And he's called and equipped us to be a part of that mission.

Today's Our Daily Bread devotional scripture reading is from Mark chapter 2, verses 13 through 17.

Once again, Jesus went out beside the lake a large crowd came to him and he

began to teach them as he walked along he saw levi son of elfeus sitting at the tax collector's booth

follow me jesus told him and And Levi got up and followed him.

While Jesus was having dinner at Levi's house,

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