Summary:

When you’re in a "pickle," whose authority do you trust: your own, others’, or Jesus’s? Where does Jesus's authority come from? And what does it require of us? In today’s episode, Jeff reflects on Mark 11:27–33, revealing how Jesus’s question presses beyond intellect to the heart and calls us out of avoidance and into repentance and freedom.

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Passage: Mark 11:27-33