If your children are like my children, they don't always listen. "Are you listening to me?", or "What did I just tell you?" are common phrases in our household unfortunately.... These can be reminders that sometimes we as adults don't always listen as well, or listen but don't act. In today's lesson Jesus is telling the people that "if the people would listen to and then DO what they hear being read in the scripture passage, then the good news would actually happen."

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"I just can't do it!" Have you ever said that? Of course you have, we have all said that at one time or another. So did a man named Jeremiah from our lesson today when God spoke to him... and said, "Before you were even born, I chose you to be my prophet to all the nations." There will be times in your life when God will come to you and ask you to do something special for him. He may call you to be a preacher, a missionary, or a Sunday School teacher. Whatever it is that God calls you to do in this life, remember what he said to Jeremiah, "Don't say, 'I can't!'" If God calls you to do something, he will reach out his hand and touch your life to give you the ability to do it.

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Some people like to go fishing only if they are guaranteed to catch something.... The Bible tells us that, with Jesus's help, Peter and his fishermen started pulling the nets up with so many fish that the nets began to break. When their boats came onto the shore, they left everything, and followed Jesus. From that day on, Peter and his friends fished for people and brought many into God's kingdom. Jesus wants you and me to fish for people too. If we will be faithful in telling people about Jesus and his love, we can trust Jesus to bring in the catch!

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If you ask someone, "How can you live your life to enter the Kingdom of God?", the typical answer may be "Follow the Ten Commandments."... However, someone can also state that "how you live your life" is as important as "what you do in your life" - behaviors count. During the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus gave us guidelines for our behavior. Follow our lesson on the Beatitudes to find out how.

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There are times when someone wronged us and we got angry about it.... Those things hurt us. We have to make choices every day about whether to forgive people. In today's Bible lesson, Joseph had a choice. He could choose to punish his brothers for what they had done to him, or he could forgive them and reunite with them. Joseph chose forgiveness, and God wants us to forgive others, too.

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Take a look at these letters: M O M - Does that spell MOM or does that spell WOW? It's a matter of perspective isn't it? Writing MOM on a piece of paper can be read multiple ways just by turning the paper in a different direction. It's the same paper - but we're seeing it in whole new way.... Something similar happens in this week's lesson. Several of the disciples are walking with Jesus up a high mountain when all of a sudden they see him in a new and different way. His clothes suddenly become a dazzling white and they hear the voice of God explaining that "this is my Son." There's a special name for this in the Bible. Join us Sunday to find out what it is.

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When we feel too much stress, we then say and do things we wouldn't normally say and do. We get impatient and annoyed. We might even snap..., where one moment we seem ok and then the next moment for no real reason we're just really angry. In today's lesson about Jesus, we hear that Jesus is experiencing quite a bit of stress. But Jesus did not snap. When stress happens, it's easy to forget who we really are - we forget that we are God's gift, and instead, we snap. But we don't have to snap.

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It can be hard to trust in God's promises, or even that God is involved in our daily lives. We want and expect grand gestures, and we like to dictate how God's desires or plans for our lives will be carried out. But God rarely does things the way we expect or hope.... Just because our plans haven't worked out the way we think they should, doesn't mean God's not involved or God has failed us. It might just be that God is waiting for just the right moment to reveal a delightful surprise. God's plans might not be our plans. But God's promises (and surprises) are as numerous as the stars.

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In today's lesson we learn the Parable of the Fig Tree. The meaning behind it is that borrowed time is not permanent .... God's patience has a limit. In the parable, the vineyard owner grants another year of life to the tree. In the same way, God in His mercy grants us another day, another hour, another breath. Christ stands at the door of each man's heart knocking and seeking to gain entrance and requiring repentance from sin. But if there is no fruit, no repentance, His patience will come to an end, and the fruitless, unrepentant individual will be cut down. We all live on borrowed time; judgment is near.

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