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Podcast: Bret Hammond
Episode: What Is Your Name? Mark 5:1-20
Description: "Who was that masked man?"
I must have heard that line a hundred times growing up, watching reruns of The Lone Ranger. At the end of every episode, the townspeople would stand around in awe as the stranger rode off into the sunset, wondering about the identity of their mysterious rescuer.
But it doesn't take a mask to wonder about someone's identity—or your own.
Far too often, we hide behind something—pain from the past, shame we've carried too long, names that were never really ours but somehow stuck.
In Mark 5, Jesus meets a man who's lost his name to c...