Mark Clark grew up in Toronto with no church, no faith, completely skeptical and with an atheist father. He didn’t believe in the resurrection because his modern mind couldn’t believe in miracles plus he was just offended by Jesus teachings. And now he’s a pastor. Wait, what? Mark’s a pastor at Bayside Church in Sacramento and has written some powerful books including The Problem of Jesus: Answering a Skeptics' Challenges to the Scandal of Jesus. Then Shawna’s daughter who lives in the Czech Republic is home! Yesterday Shawna and Bryn ran errands together. Facetime is great but being WITH her is way better!  Through the Holy Spirit we get to be WITH God - all day - every day! Next, every single person in the world is a disciple. Every single person is being formed by some world view. The process of being a disciple of Jesus is being deprogrammed from the ideologies of the world and then into the Jesus way. Then, I don’t know if you’ve ever been blindsided by life’s storms. Yesterday a friend shared with Shawna that their marriage is struggling. The storms of life can come up out of nowhere and blindside us. Jesus offers a peace to us that the world cannot offer, and the world cannot take. No matter what is going on in the world, or your world, you can still experience peace today. Last, with yesterday’s US election there are certainly people on the right who are saying, “We beat those losers.” And then people on the left saying, “Those uneducated barbarians have ruined our country.” What’s at the root of both of these sentiments is pride. Something Jesus is very much against. It’s a conversation about religion/politics and the gospel. Support the show: https://give.moodyradio.org/fall-share?v=def&appeal=MRWM&_gl=1%2a142i9we%2a_ga%2aNTE4MTE5MmUtY2U1Yy00YmQ3LWU4MmUtNjEwYTQ5YzAyODRj%2a_ga_4WH1937046%2aMTY5NTExODEwMS4yOTkuMC4xNjk1MTE4MTAxLjYwLjAuMA..&_ga=2.197426156.215784306.1695059984-1182841406.166859587 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.