If you are a child of God, you don’t lose your status if you have a bad week.

I am accepted by God through the work of Jesus Christ - therefore I obey

Tolerance is not the absence of belief. Tolerance is how your beliefs teach you to treat other people

If God does not have our highest allegiance, we will use prayer to try to get things that have that designation.

The targets of this story are not wayward sinners but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not so much with immoral outsiders as with moral insiders. H wants to show them their blindness, narrowness, and self righteousness, and how these things are destroying both their own souls and the lives of the people around them.

As things are brought back under Christ's rule and authority, they are restored to health, beauty, and freedom.

Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.