Jesus tells us to “seek first the kingdom of God.” Sounds great! But how? With so much confusion about God’s word where should we even start? What exactly are we looking for? What is really the goal?

Often times we ask the question, “What’s to gain by worry?” Really what we should ask is “what do we lose?” Do our pursuits of life, trump our relationship with Christ? Can we have peace without him?

What’s our price? How, who do we allow to decide what we our worth. What, who do we truly value?

Jesus continues to ask us to dig into our hearts and really seek, what motivates us? What is priority in our lives.

Fasting? Ugh, sounds a lot like works. Fasting sounds like more of a Old Testament thing, Jesus doesn’t really care about fasting does he? Is there really any significance?

The act of forgiving, we know we should but why? Why is it so important to Jesus that we forgive each other? Can’t we just believe and not worry about our relationship with others?

Jesus continues to warn us of our issues of pride. But can it really continue over into our prayer life? Is there really a “right way” to pray?

By challenging our motives as it pertains to charity. Jesus is really cutting to the core of what all of humanity struggles with. Pride.

Jesus continues to challenge those who think they are good. Our ideas of justice, who qualifies as our enemy and how to relate to him and others.

Jesus tells us to not “swear any oath”, but why not? What’s the harm? Especially when we promise them with our very best intentions.