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.

Christmas means Jesus came down and got involved in suffering. He hears your cries.

Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.

The gospel is not about choosing to follow advice; it's about being called to follow a King.

Jesus's teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing , religious people of his day.

The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.

You can't live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.