Luke 12:13-21 Today is April 1, April Fool’s Day. This is an unofficial day celebrated in much of the world, a day when the goal is to play a prank on someone else. In my family, someone would always sneak down to the kitchen during the night and put sugar in the salt shaker and…

Matthew 20:1-16 Did you ever play a pickup sport when you were young? Not a formal sport with adult coaches, but a simple game where two kids are picked to be the leaders and then they stand and face the rest of the kids wanting to play and begin to pick their team. They take…

Luke 18:9-14 In June 2006 I was asked to visit a village outside of Ouarzazate to check out a proposed project to start schools in rural areas. They had requested funding from a group in the US and that group wanted me to visit the project and report back to them. So I flew with…

various Probably the most exclusive club in our modern world is made up of the twelve men who have walked on the moon. Only these men can step outside at night, look up at the moon, and say, “I’ve walked on that.” But out of these twelve, only one of them, Neal Armstrong, can say,…

Gospels We’ve been looking at encounters with Jesus over this period of Lent. We started with the Widow of Nain whose dead son Jesus raised to life. We followed with John’s disciples who came to Jesus asking if he was the Messiah. Then came the paralytic whose four friends carried him to Jesus; Simon the…

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