“There’s nothing we can do to change the past. The future is God’s business. It’s in the present we encounter God’s will and God’s way for us and through us.”
Tag: Luke 12
Do Not Keep Worrying
“”Worry is a rodent. It cannot live in the secret place of the Most High.”
The Guy in the Crowd
“Jesus is teaching his disciples. He is teaching us. Where is our focus and what or who is swaying our desires?”
The Present Time
Luke 12: 54-56 John 2: 5-11 Victor Borge, the well known Danish-American comedian and pianist of another time, told a friend he could tell time by his piano. His friend was skeptical, so Borge volunteered to demonstrate. He pounded out a crashing march loud and fast on his piano. Immediately there came a banging on…
The Advantages of Worrying
Luke 12:29-40 The old story goes like this. A husband knew every year on the family’s way to their vacation spot, just as they would get about eighty miles out of town, his wife would cry out, “Oh, no! I’m sure I left the iron on.” Each year they would return home only to find…
Make Yourself Rich
Luke 12: 13-21 Someone in the crowd asked Jesus to tell the person’s brother to divide the family inheritance with him. This sounds like the story of the prodigal son. There was an inheritance. There was a son/brother who wanted his share of the inheritance before the father died. He got it. The person in…
Psalm 102 in The Message 