Unlike fired clay that is dry, hard, and often meant for one fixed purpose, we are soft and malleable in God’s hands.

Jesus calls us to extend welcome and grace to the ones who need it the most, rather than the ones who have something to offer back.

How often and in what ways do you offer a “sacrifice of praise”?

“There shall be no strange gods among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.”

In this reading, the Lord contrasts living water with the stagnant water that seeps out of a cracked cistern.

To Jesus, mercy outweighs tradition every time.

The heart of this reading has to do with the tangible and the intangible, with the physical and the spiritual.

In this prayer, the psalmist cries out for God to rescue and protect.

God, who knows more about Jeremiah than he knows about himself, has uniquely equipped Jeremiah for this work.

In this reading, Jesus reminds his hearers that following him and aligning your life with his can be costly.