Reading: Matthew 13: 24-30 Verse 29: “…while you are pulling the weeds you may root up the wheat with them”. I tend to be a fixer. When problems or issues arise I want to fix them. In general, most of us get uncomfortable when things are not right. In those cases our leaning is to make things right then and there. Many of us are like the servants in today’s parable. The parable begins with the planting of wheat in the field. During the night an enemy sows weeds in the same fi

Reading: Matthew 10: 24-39 Verse 28: “Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul”. In our passage for today and tomorrow, Jesus is about to send out the twelve disciples. He reminds them in our section for today that a servant and master should be more alike one another than different. Yes, one might be in charge, but both should treat the other with respect, honor, … There should also be a similarity in their character. In the context of this passag

Reading: Psalm 66: 8-20 Verse 10: “For you, O God, tested us; you refined us like silver”. The opening stanza in today’s Psalm feels a lot like life: times when I feel assured of God’s presence and times when I feel like I am being tested. In verse nine God preserves life and keeps feet from slipping and in verse ten we read, “For you, O God, tested us; you refined us like silver”. In verse eleven and the first half of twelve there is prison and burdens and hardship; in the s