"Let's celebrate. The dead are alive, the lost are found. We all get paid the same wage. No one is left out. No one is forgotten. The kingdom of heaven is like this."

"Lord, how often should we let those feelings toward someone else go, send those feelings of anger and wanting reprisal go? Seven times? The number of perfection? Again, Jesus said, "Seventy-seven times," perfection multiplied, infinity."

"I believe all of this returns to the crux of this chapter, verse fourteen: "SO IT IS NOT THE WILL OF YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN THAT ONE OF THESE LITTLE ONES SHOULD BE LOST." -- NO SEPARATION. Establishing, maintaining and reconciling relationships between God and God's people."

"We, as followers and believers in Jesus, are to learn that self-sacrifice in the image and name of Christ Jesus is how we're to live. The Rock of belief in Jesus as the Son of God can never be converted into a stumbling block of setting our minds on human things that impedes our life of self-sacrifice, a life of discipleship, a life of learning how to follow Jesus." Preached at St Mark United Methodist Church in Anniston, AL.

When we come to understand and believe who Jesus is, we are confronted with an understanding and a belief in who we are." Preached at St Mark UMC in Anniston, AL.

"We believe he can do such things even now. But like I said earlier, we give up too quickly because we've been taught weak and inferior theology." Preached at St Mark United Methodist Church in Anniston, AL.

"This story tells us Jesus welcomes us to not be afraid and to come out of the boat and join him in a life of faith that defies the struggles and the storms. We will slip. We will sink. He will tell us not to doubt, but to believe." Preached at St Mark UMC in Anniston, AL, USA.

"It was best for them to leave. That was best for them. Jesus counters all three observations with "They need not go away." Preached at St Mark UMC in Anniston, AL.

"The Son of Man, the resurrected and glorified Jesus Christ will judge wheat from weeds. In the meantime, we have to realize the children of the kingdom and the children of the evil one are intermingled. The taring out of one will bring unnecessary harm to the other. That would be an action confined to the Son of Man and his angels only." Preached at St Mark United Methodist Church in Anniston, AL.

"With the visitation of the Lord, the disciples were given/offered understanding. We have the potential to understand when we perceive our visitation, the Lord in our midst." Preached at St Mark United Methodist Church in Anniston, AL.