Sometimes, all you need to do to find a solution, receive what you need, even get what you want, is to ask for it.

Message on the parable of the generous landowner, or the workers in the vineyard. God's generosity is based on who he is, not what we have done.

The landowner provides fair wages to all his laborers and the last hired will be paid first.

The kingdom of God/Heaven: the range of God’s effective will, where what God wants done is done: “your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven”

Jesus wants us to START praying and be good at not stopping: always pray and never, ever, ever give up.

Jesus invites us into a life of prayer that bears good fruit for us and those around us.

Self-righteousness decimates our ability to be fruitful in the ways that last and matter. The ways that transform us into the people we were made to be and bless those around us.

The problem of self-righteousness and our denial of our need for God

When God’s Word lands on the good soil of our hearts, it finds fertile ground for a fruitful life.