Matthew 6:25-3425 “Therefore I tell you: Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26 Consider the birds of the sky: They don’t sow or reap or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth more than they? 27 Can any of you add one moment to his ...  Read More

Read: John 6:1-15, 25-35...  Read More

James 2:1-13My brothers and sisters, do not show favoritism as you hold on to the faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ. 2 For if someone comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and dressed in fine clothes, and a poor person dressed in filthy clothes also comes in, 3 if you look with favor on the one wearing the fine clothes and say, “Sit here in a good place,” and yet you say to the poor pe...  Read More

Matthew 23:23-2823 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You pay a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, and yet you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy, and faithfulness. These things should have been done without neglecting the others. 24 Blind guides! You strain out a gnat, but gulp down a camel! 25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean th...  Read More

Matthew 23:23-2823 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You pay a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, and yet you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy, and faithfulness. These things should have been done without neglecting the others. 24 Blind guides! You strain out a gnat, but gulp down a camel! 25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean th...  Read More

Luke 7:36-5036 Then one of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table. 37 And a woman in the town who was a sinner found out that Jesus was reclining at the table in the Pharisee’s house. She brought an alabaster jar of perfume 38 and stood behind him at his feet, weeping, and began to wash his feet with her tears. She wiped his feet with h...  Read More

Romans 2:1-112 Therefore, every one of you who judges is without excuse. For when you judge another, you condemn yourself, since you, the judge, do the same things. 2 Now we know that God’s judgment on those who do such things is based on the truth. 3 Do you think—anyone of you who judges those who do such things yet do the same—that you will escape God’s judgment? 4 Or do you despise the riches o...  Read More

Luke 5:31–32"'I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.'"...  Read More

Luke 5:30"Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?"...  Read More

Luke 5:29"And Levi made him a great feast in his house..."...  Read More

Luke 5:28"And leaving everything, he rose and followed him."...  Read More

Focus: Luke 5:27"And he said to him, 'Follow me.'"Jesus doesn’t begin with a list of demands or requirements—He simply says, “Follow me.” Levi was a tax collector, a profession known for corruption and betrayal of fellow Jews. Yet Jesus saw him not for who he was, but for who he could become....  Read More