Together Church Weekly

June 16, 2026

The Gospel of Mark Summer Series

Hey Together Church family,

We are one week into our summer series, The Gospel of Mark, and I could not be more excited about where we're headed. Nine weeks. One Gospel. One question that Mark keeps putting in front of us: who then is this?

We want to give you every tool we can to help you go deeper this summer, so we've pulled together two resources to go alongside the Sunday messages.

The Reading Plan

Each week has a reading plan built to take you through the passages that connect to that Sunday's message. You don't have to read it all in one sitting. A few verses a day is enough. The goal isn't to get through it. The goal is to let it get through you.

THE GOSPEL OF MARK READING PLAN

The Podcast

Every Monday or Tuesday after the Sunday message, a new podcast episode drops. Each episode covers the passages that didn't make it into the sermon, not because they're less important, but because they deserve more space than a quick mention on Sunday morning.

Think of it as the deeper dive. Same book of Mark, slower pace, more context. Episodes run about 15 to 25 minutes. Episode 1 is called 40 Days and it covers Mark 1:12-13, which is Mark's account of Jesus in the wilderness.

Mark's version is famously short. Just two verses. Matthew and Luke both give you the full story with the three temptations, the devil's dialogue, the whole back and forth. Mark gives you almost nothing. "He was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. And he was with the wild animals, and the angels were ministering to him." That's it. He moves on.

So the podcast episode exists to slow down and ask what's actually happening in those two verses, because there's more packed in there than it looks.

You can find Sermon Plus on both Apple Podcast and Spotify.
SPOTIFY PODCAST

APPLE PODCAST

This is a great summer to go deep. Grab the reading plan, subscribe to the podcast, and bring your questions on Sunday. We'll see you then.

WEEK 1 RECAP

Mark 1:1-45

Mark doesn't ease you in. One word sets the pace for the whole Gospel: euthys. Immediately. Jesus shows up, calls fishermen off the beach, walks into a synagogue and silences a demon, and then does the thing that holds the whole chapter together.

A leper finds him and says: "If you will, you can make me clean." Not if you can. If you will. He already knew Jesus had the power. He just didn't know if he was worth it.

Jesus reaches out and touches him before he says a word. Then: I will. Be clean.

In Jewish purity law, uncleanness spread to the clean thing. But here it goes the other direction. The cleanness wins.

That's the sermon in one line: You don't have to clean up before you come. The cleaning happens in the coming.

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