Three servants were given different amounts of money and depending on their investments determined if they heard, "Well done," or "Get out," from their boss. What does this parable mean for our relationships ith Jesus?

While there is a real, if not painful, weight that we feel when we carry financial debt, there is an even great weight we have with God that could be called our "sin-debt." God, through Jesus, provides forgiveness of our sin-debt, that that forgiveness should change us somehow... but how?

Planted seeds tend to grow. We don't know how exactly, but God makes it happen. The same is true for us as we grow in maturity in Christ. The same is true as we invite people to discover and experience God's ways.

Being a Christ-follower brings light and purpose to life, but to overlook the cost is a problem. Jesus confronted that very issue in two parables of the benefits of counting the cost before major decisions.