And we’re off…ready, set, go! What a busy season we’re in right now. We’ve cooked, decorated, planned, and shopped since at least Thanksgiving. Now we’re running around to pick up last minute gifts or ordering them online hoping they will arrive on time. We are so busy right now! (Unless you’re one of the super organized types that finished shopping months ago and are totally ready with gifts wrapped, cookies baked, and are in the process of planning out 2024…if…
Scripture reference – Matt 20: 1-16 In this passage of scripture Jesus tells the story of the owner of a vineyard who hires laborers throughout the day to work in his vineyard. At the end of the day all the laborers receive the same pay and it causes anger and frustration. I believe the story encourages us to be kingdom minded instead of relying on the wisdom and logic of man. In this world it seems completely unfair and makes…
I see someone suffering, but he doesn’t look like me. Why should I help him when it will take something from me? I don’t have the time. I don’t have the money. I’m struggling myself. It doesn’t make sense to help someone else. I turn and walk away from the suffering man. His suffering offends me, convicts me, and messes up my plans. As I walk away and glance over my shoulder a small child walks over to him. The…
Hope is something that keeps and sustains us during hard times. It’s like the shore we see in the distance when the water is choppy while we’re in the boat. We hope we can just make it to the shore. Or we hope we can just make it through all of the treatments. We hope we can just stretch our money until the end of the month when the net paycheck comes. Hope gives life where there seems to be…
In the Bible in Matthew 16:6 Jesus says to the disciples “Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees”. In verse 7 it says His disciples “reasoned among themselves, saying, it is because we have taken no bread”, (because they had forgotten to take bread with them). The disciples missed what Jesus was saying to them and it seems to me there were a couple of reasons why. They had the wrong focus. Jesus…