Matthew 13:44

Jesus suggests following him, making him one's King, is a treasure worth trading everything for. We make this trade inch by inch, and it is always a good one!…

What’s your dream? And what will you do to get there? Open Matthew 13:44. What’s your dream? And what would you do to get it? Your honest answers to those questions reveal more about you than you realize. Someone caught up in the first euphoria of love dreams of a...…

“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid; and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.” (Matthew 13:44) If……

Bert and Colleen may not have made much difference on Google and Twitter, but God was their Audience of One.…

Jesus suggests following him, making him one's King, is a treasure worth trading everything for. We make this trade inch by inch, and it is always a good one!…

In covenants of grace, God never leaves us to ourselves. When the Comforter comes, he writes the law of love in our hearts and he causes us to walk therein.…

What’s your dream? And what will you do to get there?…

On holiday in Copenhagen, I learned in the fabulous Danish National Museum that Ice Age Hunters could walk from Jutland, Denmark to England. After the great deluge, (probably triggered by the melting of the North American glaciers) described in […]…

On holiday in Copenhagen, I learned in the fabulous Danish National Museum that Ice Age Hunters could walk from Jutland, Denmark to England. After the great deluge, (probably triggered by the melting of the North American glaciers) described in the myths of hundreds of cultures, it was no longer possible. In Genesis 6-10, we read how Noah, “a righteous man,…

You can’t earn God’s favour by doing something good.” You probably don’t say, “Live like God says; he’s good.” Apart from the obvious problem of suggesting anyone could earn eternal life by obeying commands, a vague answer like “Do what God says” is unsatisfying for a project manager used to SMART goals. He has no doubt, like all pious Jews, made regular and generous contributions to the relief of the poor and disadvantaged within his community (that is at least part of what he would understand by “loving your neighbor as yourself”), but Jewish charity operated within prudential limits, whereas Jesus puts no limit to his demand. To follow it will place this self-sufficient young man in the same position as the birds and the flowers in 6:25–32, depending directly on the provision of a heavenly Father for the essentials of life.But even this radical action of dispossession is not simply another “good thing” to do; it is the prelude to something even more far-reaching.…