I remember and give thanks for the 6th grade teacher who read Mrs Polifax to us after lunch.

And I remember and give thanks for the youth minister who taught me about following Jesus.

Who have been the teachers who have blessed you? 

Some days we need to pray to let go of our anger.

And some days we need to pray to hold it close.

We sing about Noah building the arky, arky... but not so much about him fermenting the grapey, grapey... and getting falling down drunk.

In today's episode we talk about what that means for us.

There may be debris marks showing how far the water rose, but the multicolored band stretching across the sky reminds us that God will never give up on us again.

(Genesis 9:1-17)

Peter wasn't about to be tricked into disobeying the rules. It took him more than a minute to realize that God wasn't testing him but was rewriting the rules.

Peter learned that it was a healthy thing to question what he'd always been taught. What about us?

(Acts 10:9-23)

What if we said the same things to our neighbors that we say to ourselves in our heads?

Probably not what Jesus intended.

Why are we so bad at loving ourselves?

(Mattthew 22:23-40)

We cannot always choose what happens to us. We can always choose the meaning we make of it.

(Isaiah 6:6-8)

You're just wandering down the road, not really sure why... until you know.

(Acts 8:26-40)

We all loved listening to Fred pray. It felt like joining in an ongoing conversation.

Which, if you think about it, is just what prayer is... an on-going conversation.

Balaam was bound and determined to do exactly what God told him not to do. Fortunately, his ass got In the way.

(Numbers 22:21-35)