Like the seed, some of us need to be hurt deeply in order to realize how deep and wide and long God’s love is.

It is sadder when our refusal to take risks includes limiting our show of charity, when our giving becomes controlled and calculated.

Their fear of God prompts them to obey. They recognize His voice in Haggai and they obey.

She is a woman ready for forgiveness. She is a woman ready for God. She comes to Jesus not empty-handed but full.

Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them and poured perfume on them.” Luke 7: 37-38 (NIV).

Although her estrangement from her community causes the woman great pain, it is her estrangement from God that causes her more suffering.

Luke locates Jesus at a Pharisee?s house reclining at the table. It is here that the weeping woman appears and creates a scene