You & Me #1 – Adam & Eve: God invites honesty with us; He invites us not to be afraid or ashamed and distant from him. He already knows our blemishes but he still loves and cares.

Jesus cursed the fig tree that didn’t have any figs. Why did he do that? It wasn’t doing what it had been created to do. He applied this to following him. Why?

Parables #7: The Rich Man and Lazarus – Pr Tony Vis teaches from this parable that right living is compassionate living – choosing to follow Jesus in his mission and ministry of compassion to a lost and broken world so loved by God.

Parables #8 – The compassionate employer: Pr Tony Vis preaches on this parable, telling us how the kingdom of heaven is like the landowner who gave according to what each worker needed not what they deserved.

Parables #9 – The Good Samaritan: What this parable boils down to is not asking “Who is my neighbor?” but asking “How can I be a neighbor?” Get off your donkey and bless someone.

Parables #8 – The Minas. Dan Schuknecht, executive pastor, encourages all of us to use the gifts we’ve been given from God (our time, our skills & abilities, and our resources) to advance the Kingdom of God.

The Rich Fool from Luke 12. “Greed- selfishness and foolishness. We all get caught up in what the world says will make us happy. Jesus asks us to love Him more than our treasures. Will you? Are you?”

Parables #6 – Hidden Treasure: Pr Mike explores several interpretations of this parable, looking at who is the hunter and who is the treasure.

Near the height of his popularity Jesus told this story about builders who began to build a tower, but ran out of resources before completing it. Before we begin something we should crunch the numbers and consider the cost.

We have been invited by God. We also have excuses….not necessarily bad things. Just things that become a higher priority than him. Most people don’t reject Jesus, they just get busy.