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Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast.

I wanted to thank you for joining us today.

Hope this inspires you.

Hope it builds your faith.

Hope it gives you perspective to see God is moving in your life.

Enjoy the message.

Well, take a seat. We're so glad you're here today. We're continuing in the series Savage

Jesus from the Gospel of Mark. Believe me, when I say that I never thought I'd say,

this is the 10th installment of this series. I usually preach short and sweet, but I got in the

gospel of Mark, and then I couldn't get out. So today we'll be in Mark chapter 6. I want

to introduce my scripture by way of a story. When I wrote my first book, I had the privilege

to record the audio book myself.

They sent a very professional recording engineer from the publishing company to record

the book, and he would stop me and correct me if I made any mistakes.

If I got a little too southern.

He was a northern Pharisee, and he judged my accent.

And he'd say, it's a little twangy, let's get it again, or if I smacked my lips or mispronounced a word,

he backed it up and made me catch it again.

And it was annoying, but I appreciated his professionalism, and because the publisher was the largest publisher in the world, now not the publisher that I wrote for.

The publisher that I wrote for was owned by a publisher who was owned by a publisher that was the biggest publishing company in the world.

This guy worked for the big publisher.

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