Everyone has at some point been involved in a game of hide and seek? This is kind of a universal experience for humans. It's a game that doesn't require much in the way of supplies. I guess you couldn't play it in the middle of nowhere with nothing to hide behind, but otherwise you don't need much to play hide and seek, right. It is a game that everybody knows and the rules are pretty simple. Really, the only controversial part of the game is the amount of time allowed for people to hide right. How much does the person who's going to be seeking have to count?

Anxiety is a topic that is talked about in abundance in our time. In a hyper busy, information soaked age, it seems as though we actually have an anxiety epidemic, and this really shouldn't surprise us. It's always been a concern and anytime people have been anxious I mean, obviously Jesus is talking about it here and of course, things are different in different times. What we worry about what we face in life is going to be different depending on where we are, what we're experiencing, but in a fallen world, there are always going to be times where we are put in positions where our heart rate increases and we get that way too familiar feeling that we don't like in the pit of our stomach. That is going to happen in a fallen, sinful world and, like I said, this shouldn't surprise us that this is on the rise.

As a typical early 90s youth group junkie kid, I made a lot of trips to Christian concerts and Christian music festivals, and this was an important part of not only my entertainment, but this is also where I outfitted my wardrobe okay, and one of those events was coming up. I would not only set aside money for my ticket, but I needed to come home with a new T-shirt or seven, and many times there were more than just the T-shirts of the bands I was going to see and their merchandise tables. There were often walls of shirts that were Christian T-shirts and many of them, you may remember, they had like famous logos, but they like Christianized them. Like in the 90s, you would see people wearing orange shirts with the Reese's logo on it all the time, but the Christian version had the same font, but it said Jesus and some pithy slogan.

We like to be acknowledged, don't we? When you see someone and you acknowledge them with a wave or in our case it's more of a finger or a nod of the head and you don't get one back, it kind of invokes a variety of feelings in you, doesn't it? Am I just not important to this person? Did they not see me? Do they not even remember me? Did I do something to upset them? And at the same time, if you are acknowledged by someone who you don't expect to acknowledge you, you feel really good, right. Well, back in October I was at the Reformation and Worship Conference in Georgia and I had a conversation with an author who was there that he's sort of well known in Presbyterian and Reform circles.

It was back in September of 2001 that my wife and I got on an airplane in Omaha and we flew to Cleveland. We were going there for the purpose of an interview at a church in Sundeski, ohio, to be the youth director at a church there. Now, after the interview, we got a full tour of the church building and the rest of the church property. As part of that tour, we checked out one of the two parsonages that the church had. Now, we only needed one tour because these two homes were mirror images of each other. So if you saw one, you saw the other.

Dive into the teachings of Jesus in Luke 11:29-32. Discover the gravity of Jesus' message and his call for repentance. We consider the Pharisees' rejection of Jesus' plea, explore our own shortcomings, and gain deeper insights into faith, repentance, and Jesus' teachings. Will we heed Jesus' call and to embrace humility and repentance?