The Hey Eddy! Podcast

This episode covers Mark 3:7–35, where Jesus—now drawing massive crowds from all over the region—goes up on a mountain and chooses twelve apostles to be with him, preach, and cast out demons, deliberately bringing together unlikely companions like a tax collector and a zealot into one new community. Meanwhile, Jesus faces rejection from two directions: his own family arrives thinking he’s lost his...

This episode explores Mark 2:13–3:6, where Jesus repeatedly clashes with religious leaders—not for doing wrong, but for doing good in unexpected ways: calling the despised tax collector Levi to follow him, eating dinner with "sinners," refusing to make his disciples fast during what he calls a wedding celebration, letting his hungry followers pick grain on the Sabbath, and healing a man's withered...

In "Through the Roof!" from Mark 2:1-12, four determined friends carry their paralyzed buddy to a house so packed with people that they can't get through the door—so they climb onto the roof, dig a hole through it, and lower him down right in front of Jesus. Instead of immediately healing the man's legs, Jesus surprises everyone by first forgiving his sins, which makes the religious teachers furio...

After John the Baptist gets thrown in prison, Jesus steps onto the scene with an earth-shaking announcement: “The kingdom of God is here!” Walking along the Sea of Galilee, he calls four ordinary fishermen—Simon, Andrew, James, and John—to drop their nets and become “fishers of people,” and they follow him immediately. Then things get wild in Capernaum: Jesus teaches with jaw-dropping authority, c...

Mark’s Gospel starts with a bang—no long introductions, just straight into the action! John the Baptist shows up in the desert dressed like the prophet Elijah, eating locusts and wild honey, telling everyone to get their hearts ready because someone AMAZING is coming. Then Jesus arrives from the tiny town of Nazareth, and when John baptizes him in the Jordan River, the sky rips open, the Holy Spir...