Summary:

Does your faith cost you anything? Do you see devotion to Jesus as beautiful or wasteful? Can you be "close" to Jesus and still miss him? In today’s episode, Keith walks through Mark 14:1–26 to show how a woman’s costly act of devotion reveals what it looks like to truly believe the Gospel and why half-hearted faith always falls short.

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Passage: Mark 14:1-26