As Bob Dylan so appropriability sings, "Your gonna have to serve somebody", today's reading from Matthew 22 gives us who we are to serve.

Today we are given a miserable and nasty parable that if it were made into a movie is would be considered a HORROR movie! Let's hope there is more going on here than what forst meets our eyes and ears!

In  this weeks reading from Matthew 21:33-46 we hear about a landowner, a vineyard and some cranky tenants. 
Oh, and we have a name change!

The story of a father and two sons, a story that ought to cause all of us to pause.

Today we hear the bizarre story of Jonah and his frustration with God's mercy.

To forgive or not to forgive?

Conflict happens. Reconciliation can also happen.

Today we hear the Apostle Paul urging us to present our lives as a living sacrifice for the glory of God and the benefit of our neighbors in need.

In our reading from Matthew 16:13-20 we encounter Jesus and his disciples at Caesarea Phillippi where Jesus asks the question, "Who do you say that I?"

Today’s reading remind us that it is not what enters our body that defiles, but rather it is what comes from our mouths that defile. We also encounter a persistent woman pleading for healing on behalf of her daughter.