• July 1st 2017

Wanna Get Rich?

Who doesn’t?

How about people who take God at his word?

Here’s just a smattering of what the Bible says about being rich in this world:

Woe to you who are rich. (Luke 6:24)

How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God! Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. (Luke 18:24-25)

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  • March 20th 2017

Woe Woe Woe Woe

GUWG-Cross-CloudWe continue our 40-day journey deeeeep into the ♥ of Jesus.

We’re sitting at Jesus’ feet, listening to the greatest sermon ever preached: the Sermon on the Mount.

For the past several days, we’ve been taking a deeeeep dive into the Beatitudes and what it reeeeeally means to be “blessed.”

Just in case we missed the point somehow, Jesus concluded with a series of woe-full warnings in direct opposition to the world.

The world says: Get rich.

Jesus says:

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  • November 11th 2016

Jesus on the Rich

richWe continue our journey into every word spoken by Jesus in the Gospels to help us all KNOW JESUS MORE NOW.

We’re in the midst of a series entitled JESUS ON EVERYTHING, where we’re looking at what Jesus said on a wide variety of subjects with a minimum of commentary from me.

Yesterday’s topic was JESUS ON THE POOR. Today’s topic? JESUS ON THE RICH:

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  • May 15th 2016

The Rich Fool

GUWG-FarmWe continue our journey into every word spoken by Jesus in the Gospels to help us all KNOW JESUS MORE NOW.

A humongous crowd was listening to Jesus. A man shouted, “Teacher, please tell my brother to divide our father’s estate with me.”

Jesus responded with words I should read every .03 seconds:

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