This week of challenging scriptures finished for me with a doozy.
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You may not know this about me, but I used to be really into riding motorcycles.
An occupational hazard of writing these devotionals is that you struggle a lot with some of the scriptures.
“Money is the root of all evil”. I’m sure you’ve heard that misquote before.
If you are like me, you are feeling very called out by the devotionals this week.
This piece of scripture is from the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus’ longest recorded sermon.
You know how sometimes you read a piece of scripture and you feel like Jesus is calling you out directly across thousands of years and in another language?
There is a silly comedy movie from 2004 called “Dodgeball” which follows the antics of a team of dodgeball players formed from members of a local gym.
There is a theme that Lance talks about from time to time in his sermons, that we all worship something.