Hey, this is Stephen Fertig. 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 as 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 will be in Mark chapter six. 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 and 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'd back it up and make 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 and because of it, he had worked

with a lot of big names. And this was my first book and my first time and I kept having

to take breaks and my mouth would get dry. And so during one of those breaks, I realized

that this guy had worked with a lot of famous people and I asked him to tell me a story

to entertain me during my break. I said, tell me about somebody you worked with that was

difficult and he told me a story about a very well-known political figure. I don't know

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