DISCUSSION - When God Acts: Seeing and Hearing the Gospel in Mark's Miracles

This episode explores a sermon that argues humans are spiritually blind and deaf and cannot interpret God’s word on their own, so God acts directly through tactile, authoritative intervention. Using Isaiah’s curse, Jesus’ healing of the deaf-mute, and the symbolism of twelve and seven baskets, the episode traces how physical actions—mud, spit, touch, and multiplied bread—recreate Israel and all creation. The show concludes with the ‘great reversal’: surrendering passively before God so you can be actively and practically used to serve your neighbors through sacraments, vocation, and ordinary acts of love.