If you’re going to tell a story, you need to know where to start.  And in telling the story of Jesus, Mark doesn’t start in the usual places, with details about Jesus’ birth or God’s eternal Word.  Instead he starts out in the wilderness, along the Jordan river, where a preacher named John is calling people to repentance.  This week, we explore why Mark starts where he does, and what it tells us about this work that God is doing in Jesus.