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Where do you store your treasure? We all have treasures we store.  My grandson has discovered finding GEO-CACHEs.  To find the cache and get some treasure.  My granddaughter is fascinated by acorns, and she picked up tons of them and wanted a safe place for her treasures. Two questions: what do you treasure, and where […]

Adultery has become part of our entertainment. Modern media has hardened us to the pain of adultery for all parties involved. We’ve not spent much time on heart adultery. What will it mean to guard our hearts and minds? Jesus’ imagery is pretty drastic when he says we’d be better off with our eye gouged […]

Is there any acceptable murder—any risk of any of us acceptably murdering anyone? When we think of murder strictly in the realm of physically taking another’s life, then we should hope not! However, Jesus expands the concept to being out of sync with a brother—being angry, calling someone an idiot, or cursing someone. We may […]

Sin separated us from God. God is the source of all life, so sin separated us from life. God is love, so sin separated us from love. The reality is that we don’t have the ability to put Humpty Dumpty back together. It isn’t like a fall on a ski slope from which we jump […]

There is a great call for equality and justice. When we steward well the gospel, we recognize that it calls us to a radical oneness, a radical equality. We are called to give up the pride of separation and see that we are all equal in two amazing ways. All distinctions of prideful hierarchy are […]

God’s free amazing grace to each of us calls us to a new way. Solving the sin problem is Jesus leaving the comfort of the adoring angels and the forever unity of the Trinity and putting others first.  The gospel is the perfect picture of self-donation, and when Jesus’ followers follow best, that picture of […]

How can it be fair? If I run a good race, if I keep the faith, if I obey the law, it seems to be fair that there’s a crown of righteousness and glorious future awaiting me.  It seems fair if the well-toned athletic swimmer makes it to shore and the less diligent not-so-well-toned can’t […]

You are worthy of God’s love. You cannot hear this clearly enough or often enough, and you will never understand the depth of this great truth. You are worthy! You are worthy of all the love, adoration, affection, blessing, grace, forgiveness, sacrifice and attention of the God who created all that is. You are worthy, […]

Synopsis: The magi left, and an angel told Joseph to flee to Egypt. Egypt. You know, the place where the Israelites were enslaved for hundreds of years and out of which God miraculously led them. You know, the place full of Gentiles, pagan worship, and uncleanness. And God said stay there until I tell you […]

Synopsis: The Magi were respected religious leaders in their homeland. They were also Gentiles. And yet, despite being shunned by the religious system of the Israelites, these Magi came because they recognized the significance of what was happening and who was coming. They came to worship an Israelite king. The Israelites knew nothing of it […]