Romans 12:1-2"The Five Whys"Matthew 4:111 John 1:92 Timothy 3:16-17

Romans 12:1-2"The Five Whys"Matthew 4:111 John 1:92 Timothy 3:16-17

Matthew 6: 9-13Isaiah 65: 17-25Joel 3 : 17-18Matthew 21: 23-46Isaiah 5: 1-8Micah 6: 8-8“Doing God’s will” is about us playing our part in God’s ongoing work and enjoying its benefits…its about going where God is. We will die, everything won’t get fixed – but it is making a difference.Mark 14 : 32-43“The Greek words depict the utmost degree of unbounded horror and suffering” –Lohmeyer“Violence is always a failure of imagination” – Shane ClairborneWhich Vineyard will you work in?Are you sleeping – or paying attention to what God is doing?Are you seeking God’s desire of human flourishing or you own?

Matthew 6: 9-13Isaiah 65: 17-25Joel 3 : 17-18Matthew 21: 23-46Isaiah 5: 1-8Micah 6: 8-8“Doing God’s will” is about us playing our part in God’s ongoing work and enjoying its benefits…its about going where God is. We will die, everything won’t get fixed – but it is making a difference.Mark 14 : 32-43“The Greek words depict the utmost degree of unbounded horror and suffering” –Lohmeyer“Violence is always a failure of imagination” – Shane ClairborneWhich Vineyard will you work in?Are you sleeping – or paying attention to what God is doing?Are you seeking God’s desire of human flourishing or you own?

Matthew 6: 9-13Isaiah 65: 17-25Joel 3 : 17-18Matthew 21: 23-46Isaiah 5: 1-8Micah 6: 8-8“Doing God’s will” is about us playing our part in God’s ongoing work and enjoying its benefits…its about going where God is. We will die, everything won’t get fixed – but it is making a difference.Mark 14 : 32-43“The Greek words depict the utmost degree of unbounded horror and suffering” –Lohmeyer“Violence is always a failure of imagination” – Shane ClairborneWhich Vineyard will you work in?Are you sleeping – or paying attention to what God is doing?Are you seeking God’s desire of human flourishing or you own?

Matthew 6: 9-13Isaiah 65: 17-25Joel 3 : 17-18Matthew 21: 23-46Isaiah 5: 1-8Micah 6: 8-8“Doing God’s will” is about us playing our part in God’s ongoing work and enjoying its benefits…its about going where God is. We will die, everything won’t get fixed – but it is making a difference.Mark 14 : 32-43“The Greek words depict the utmost degree of unbounded horror and suffering” –Lohmeyer“Violence is always a failure of imagination” – Shane ClairborneWhich Vineyard will you work in?Are you sleeping – or paying attention to what God is doing?Are you seeking God’s desire of human flourishing or you own?

Matthew 6: 9-13Gen 1:1, 2:7, 2:15, 12:1, 37:1-7, 41:41-45, 47-49, 47:13-26Deut 15:1-11Lev 25:8-17, 23-24, 35, 431 Sam 8:1-22Luke 16: 1-14“According to Josephus, the Romans consistently practiced a scorched-earth policy: they burned villages and slaughtered or enslaved the inhabitants and crucified any who resisted as a way of terrorizing the remaining populace into acquiescence to Roman domination. Economic and social recovery in such cases would have been difficult and slow…According to Josephus, Rome required a quarter of the harvest every second year, that is, roughly 12.5% a year. (This was in addition to the tithes and offerings already due to the Temple and high priestly aristocracy and the local taxes to fund Herod’s ambitious building plans) Under the impact of pressures from multiple layers of rulers, however, both families and the village communities began to disintegrate. Families unable to feed themselves after rendering up tithes and taxes fell into debt, often to the Herodian officials who controlled stores of food. With their debts spiraling out of control, the poor gradually lost control of their lands, presumably becoming tenants of Herodian officers or of the king. Beginning in 6 CE Judean peasants, already exhausted by the demands for taxes to support Heord’s ambitious programs, were required to render tribute to Caesar again, in addition to the tithes and offerings to the Temple…In a time of provocations by Roman governors such as Pontius Pilate and popular protests against abuses, the high priestly families never protested or represented the people to the Roman authorities. They exploited the people’s need for loans to expand their own wealth, with which they built mansions near the Temple in Jerusalem … they even sent gangs of thugs to the village threshing floors at harvest time to expropriate the tithes, depriving the ordinary priests of their share.” – Richard Horsley, “Covenant Economics” Continues in other parables:Laborers in the VineyardWicked TenetsUnmerciful StewardsAll of these are dealing with rich land owners or absentee land owners – they are not spiritual lessons – they are real, hard core condemnations of the economic policies and practices of the ruling class that were oppressing the common people. Jesus is ushering in the Kingdom of God – and with it a renewal of covenant economics that existed in the early Israel community – No one gets to profit off of the suffering of others – especially your neighbor.What is forgiveness?Psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky calls forgiveness 'a shift in thinking [that leads to an action] toward someone who has wronged you, such that your desire to harm that person has decreased and your desire to do him good (or to benefit your relationship) has increased.' Forgiveness, at a minimum, is a decision to let go of the desire for revenge and ill-will toward the person who wronged you.

Matthew 6: 9-13Gen 1:1, 2:7, 2:15, 12:1, 37:1-7, 41:41-45, 47-49, 47:13-26Deut 15:1-11Lev 25:8-17, 23-24, 35, 431 Sam 8:1-22Luke 16: 1-14“According to Josephus, the Romans consistently practiced a scorched-earth policy: they burned villages and slaughtered or enslaved the inhabitants and crucified any who resisted as a way of terrorizing the remaining populace into acquiescence to Roman domination. Economic and social recovery in such cases would have been difficult and slow…According to Josephus, Rome required a quarter of the harvest every second year, that is, roughly 12.5% a year. (This was in addition to the tithes and offerings already due to the Temple and high priestly aristocracy and the local taxes to fund Herod’s ambitious building plans) Under the impact of pressures from multiple layers of rulers, however, both families and the village communities began to disintegrate. Families unable to feed themselves after rendering up tithes and taxes fell into debt, often to the Herodian officials who controlled stores of food. With their debts spiraling out of control, the poor gradually lost control of their lands, presumably becoming tenants of Herodian officers or of the king. Beginning in 6 CE Judean peasants, already exhausted by the demands for taxes to support Heord’s ambitious programs, were required to render tribute to Caesar again, in addition to the tithes and offerings to the Temple…In a time of provocations by Roman governors such as Pontius Pilate and popular protests against abuses, the high priestly families never protested or represented the people to the Roman authorities. They exploited the people’s need for loans to expand their own wealth, with which they built mansions near the Temple in Jerusalem … they even sent gangs of thugs to the village threshing floors at harvest time to expropriate the tithes, depriving the ordinary priests of their share.” – Richard Horsley, “Covenant Economics” Continues in other parables:Laborers in the VineyardWicked TenetsUnmerciful StewardsAll of these are dealing with rich land owners or absentee land owners – they are not spiritual lessons – they are real, hard core condemnations of the economic policies and practices of the ruling class that were oppressing the common people. Jesus is ushering in the Kingdom of God – and with it a renewal of covenant economics that existed in the early Israel community – No one gets to profit off of the suffering of others – especially your neighbor.What is forgiveness?Psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky calls forgiveness 'a shift in thinking [that leads to an action] toward someone who has wronged you, such that your desire to harm that person has decreased and your desire to do him good (or to benefit your relationship) has increased.' Forgiveness, at a minimum, is a decision to let go of the desire for revenge and ill-will toward the person who wronged you.

Matthew 6: 9-13Gen 1:1, 2:7, 2:15, 12:1, 37:1-7, 41:41-45, 47-49, 47:13-26Deut 15:1-11Lev 25:8-17, 23-24, 35, 431 Sam 8:1-22Luke 16: 1-14“According to Josephus, the Romans consistently practiced a scorched-earth policy: they burned villages and slaughtered or enslaved the inhabitants and crucified any who resisted as a way of terrorizing the remaining populace into acquiescence to Roman domination. Economic and social recovery in such cases would have been difficult and slow…According to Josephus, Rome required a quarter of the harvest every second year, that is, roughly 12.5% a year. (This was in addition to the tithes and offerings already due to the Temple and high priestly aristocracy and the local taxes to fund Herod’s ambitious building plans) Under the impact of pressures from multiple layers of rulers, however, both families and the village communities began to disintegrate. Families unable to feed themselves after rendering up tithes and taxes fell into debt, often to the Herodian officials who controlled stores of food. With their debts spiraling out of control, the poor gradually lost control of their lands, presumably becoming tenants of Herodian officers or of the king. Beginning in 6 CE Judean peasants, already exhausted by the demands for taxes to support Heord’s ambitious programs, were required to render tribute to Caesar again, in addition to the tithes and offerings to the Temple…In a time of provocations by Roman governors such as Pontius Pilate and popular protests against abuses, the high priestly families never protested or represented the people to the Roman authorities. They exploited the people’s need for loans to expand their own wealth, with which they built mansions near the Temple in Jerusalem … they even sent gangs of thugs to the village threshing floors at harvest time to expropriate the tithes, depriving the ordinary priests of their share.” – Richard Horsley, “Covenant Economics” Continues in other parables:Laborers in the VineyardWicked TenetsUnmerciful StewardsAll of these are dealing with rich land owners or absentee land owners – they are not spiritual lessons – they are real, hard core condemnations of the economic policies and practices of the ruling class that were oppressing the common people. Jesus is ushering in the Kingdom of God – and with it a renewal of covenant economics that existed in the early Israel community – No one gets to profit off of the suffering of others – especially your neighbor.What is forgiveness?Psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky calls forgiveness 'a shift in thinking [that leads to an action] toward someone who has wronged you, such that your desire to harm that person has decreased and your desire to do him good (or to benefit your relationship) has increased.' Forgiveness, at a minimum, is a decision to let go of the desire for revenge and ill-will toward the person who wronged you.

Matthew 6: 9-13Gen 1:1, 2:7, 2:15, 12:1, 37:1-7, 41:41-45, 47-49, 47:13-26Deut 15:1-11Lev 25:8-17, 23-24, 35, 431 Sam 8:1-22Luke 16: 1-14“According to Josephus, the Romans consistently practiced a scorched-earth policy: they burned villages and slaughtered or enslaved the inhabitants and crucified any who resisted as a way of terrorizing the remaining populace into acquiescence to Roman domination. Economic and social recovery in such cases would have been difficult and slow…According to Josephus, Rome required a quarter of the harvest every second year, that is, roughly 12.5% a year. (This was in addition to the tithes and offerings already due to the Temple and high priestly aristocracy and the local taxes to fund Herod’s ambitious building plans) Under the impact of pressures from multiple layers of rulers, however, both families and the village communities began to disintegrate. Families unable to feed themselves after rendering up tithes and taxes fell into debt, often to the Herodian officials who controlled stores of food. With their debts spiraling out of control, the poor gradually lost control of their lands, presumably becoming tenants of Herodian officers or of the king. Beginning in 6 CE Judean peasants, already exhausted by the demands for taxes to support Heord’s ambitious programs, were required to render tribute to Caesar again, in addition to the tithes and offerings to the Temple…In a time of provocations by Roman governors such as Pontius Pilate and popular protests against abuses, the high priestly families never protested or represented the people to the Roman authorities. They exploited the people’s need for loans to expand their own wealth, with which they built mansions near the Temple in Jerusalem … they even sent gangs of thugs to the village threshing floors at harvest time to expropriate the tithes, depriving the ordinary priests of their share.” – Richard Horsley, “Covenant Economics” Continues in other parables:Laborers in the VineyardWicked TenetsUnmerciful StewardsAll of these are dealing with rich land owners or absentee land owners – they are not spiritual lessons – they are real, hard core condemnations of the economic policies and practices of the ruling class that were oppressing the common people. Jesus is ushering in the Kingdom of God – and with it a renewal of covenant economics that existed in the early Israel community – No one gets to profit off of the suffering of others – especially your neighbor.What is forgiveness?Psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky calls forgiveness 'a shift in thinking [that leads to an action] toward someone who has wronged you, such that your desire to harm that person has decreased and your desire to do him good (or to benefit your relationship) has increased.' Forgiveness, at a minimum, is a decision to let go of the desire for revenge and ill-will toward the person who wronged you.