| What is more important than man walking on the | | | | inheritance sought by prophets and kings and |
| moon? An astronaut who walked on the moon, | | | | common folk like you and me. |
| Colonel James Urwin, said that what is more | | | | Jesus said, "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God |
| important is that Jesus walked on the earth. The | | | | and His righteousness." When I got serious about |
| four gospels of the Bible record this Good News. | | | | this search, I left teaching high school English and |
| Matthew notes the fulfilled prophecies; Mark runs | | | | went to Mennonite seminaries for three years. |
| with the impetuous Peter while Dr. Luke is the | | | | This absorbed me while a year of graduate |
| painstaking historian. The Apostle John pictures the | | | | English studies did not. My wife went along with |
| Christ with the depth of a Beloved disciple. Sow | | | | these moves hoping that I would get it out of my |
| what? | | | | system. But it didn't work that way; I got into it |
| I try to work the words of Jesus into the fabric | | | | more and more. She got out of it more and more |
| of life. He left many words to teach us what the | | | | until she divorced me. When my job ended, I |
| Kingdom of God is like. It is like salt and light, | | | | force-fed myself the Gospel of Mark and |
| preserving and quietly warming. It is like a living | | | | memorized its 678 verses. Later our eldest |
| seed that will enlarge in favorable conditions. It has | | | | daughter was murdered. When my earthly |
| God-sized secrets. It will be unseen but making a | | | | enterprises failed I found short-term and |
| daily difference. It is changing the world through | | | | long-term meaning in Jesus and His kingdom. |
| sharing of comfort, clothes and calories. It is an | | | | |