Father Snort

In the tradition of the prophets, Jesus spoke of his / God's disapproval of how Israel was living in terms of a fire burning within him. Israel was not living the Kingdom of God life. Would they, Jesus was asking, live the Micah 6:8 kind of life?

Jesus tells us to be dressed and ready for action, to live lives of service in his Kingdom. Living the Kingdom Life, we needn't fear nor be worried - Jesus is always with us, come what may.

Jesus is interrupted in teaching about the Kingdom of God by a man concerned with his brother splitting his inheritance with him. Jesus directs the interruption right back to the Kingdom of God, pointing out that life is constantly leading to re-creation, not more and more stuff.

We knock on God's door, wondering what in the world going on in our lives. Together with God, we seek those answers, seek God's Kingdom and presence. Together, we'll find God's Kingdom and presence. Working on rebuilding houses in Bastrop after forest fires was one of these experiences of God's Kingdom.

Stories of youth who went on our mission trip to Bastrop

Trayvon Martin & George Zimmerman saw each other as threats rather than as human beings. They were not living the Kingdom of God life in which we see each other as human beings, as beloved children of God first and foremost. Questions of race, guns, and courts are all ultimately irrelevant.

For a Samaritan to be a neighbor to the injured man rather than the Priest and Levite to be a neighbor to him was to say that in that moment, the Samaritan was more of a Jew than the Priest or the Levite

We bear one another's burdens and we carry our own loads, helping each other out as we take responsibility for those tasks which are ours alone to do.

We live in a chaotic and often crazy world. Rather than ask fire to come down on the darkness of the world, Jesus teaches us to step out in love and minister to the needs of the world. Help bring about God's kingdom.

The Gerasene Demoniac had a legion of demons in him, and he begged Jesus not to heal him because the demons were hurting him as they were leaving. Jesus didn't force the man to be healed, unlike the demons who forced the man to do what they wanted. The man could then trust Jesus.