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Jesus asks different things of different disciples…

Now when Jesus saw a crowd around him, he gave orders to go over to the other side. And a scribe came up and said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.” And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.” Another of the disciples said to him, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.” And Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”

Matt 8:18-22

But he always asks for the same thing, everything.

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Probably the favorite of verse of those who don’t like the church

Judge not lest ye be judged

But Jesus’ point was not to simply not judge, but to do so realizing He always takes a closer, deeper, more intimate view of YOU than the one you are

Don’t pick on people, jump on their failures, criticize their faults— unless, of course, you want the same treatment. That critical spirit has a way of boomeranging.
-Matt

As believers, we are supposed to be discerning, and we are supposed to hold other believers to account, but not with a critical spirit. We are called to make judgments (based on God’s word) to help fellow believers (in love) become more Christlike. Our judgment is not for the outside world, but for those in the church (cf. 1Cor 5)

Just don’t be a jerk 🙂

All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players

Thus starts the famous monologue by Jaques in Acts II Scene VII of Shakespeare’s “As You Like It”

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Though I might like to think some of my messages are good, they all pale in comparison to (the series of messages compiled by Matthew called) the Sermon on the Mount.

This is the greatest teaching on the OT Law ever recorded, so what did Jesus say about the Law?

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We’ve all heard of the documentary “Supersize Me” where Morgan Spurlock ate nothing but McDonalds and his health went south.

I’ve always thought this was a dishonest documentary, otherwise known as “a documentary.”

He ate 5,000 calories per day during this experiment. So, the moral of the story is NOT “McDonalds is bad” but I think something closer to “eating 9.26 Big Macs per day will kill you”

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