Matthew 13:31-32 Did you know there is a website: I Love Mustard? There are only 59 members so it has not exactly gone viral. The site promotes itself this way: Read true personal stories, chat & get advice, support, and help from a group of 59 people who all say I Love Mustard. And then…
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…
James 2:8-13 Do you think James ever heard his half-brother, Jesus, teach? Did James ever see Jesus do a miracle? After Joseph died, Jesus took over the carpentry business but then at some point he passed this on to his younger brothers and began traveling around. When he came back to Nazareth, the stories of…