Episode 13: A Tale of Two Daughters

What does desperation look like when it meets the feet of Jesus? In this episode, Pastor Steven is joined by Sarah Lingerfelt of the Women's Leadership Team to walk through one of the most layered passages in Mark's Gospel — the intertwined stories of Jairus and the bleeding woman. Two daughters. Twelve years. One Savior who refuses to be rushed, even when a little girl is dying. Sarah brings a deeply personal perspective on what twelve years of physical suffering actually entails, and her own moment desperation during the COVID crisis when her daughter nearly died of sepsis. Together they wrestle with the hard questions: Why does Jesus stop on the way to a dying child? Why does He act like He doesn't know who touched Him? Why does He tell the family to keep the resurrection quiet? And what does it mean that Jesus calls *both* women "daughter" — equalizing the prominent and the outcast at the muddy riverbank of grace? The takeaway is one every weary believer needs to hear: it doesn't matter how strong your faith is. What matters is how strong He is. Whether you come crawling through a crowd in radical faith or stumbling forward full of doubt and "what about me?", Jesus will hold you fast.