"What is God really like? How can I know Him? In this series we'll explore the character of God and what it means to have a personal relationship with Him - to know Him and be known by Him."

The State of the Church

Many of Jesus parables begin with the phrase the kingdom of heaven is like and then he tells a story to teach about the kingdom two of the shortest parables are about a hidden treasure in a field and a really expensive pearl in both instances the man sells everything they have in order to get what they've just found.

Thrifting has become really popular in our culture and what are the reasons it's so popular is because if you know what you're looking for you can find something of great value and nobody else knows it. But, it makes me wonder do we understand the value of what we have in the kingdom of heaven?

See i think we have a problem. Some of us were searching for the wrong thing. Things that won't really satisfy us. For others of us we don't really understand the value of what we have. We try to fit spirituality in with everything else in our life and it just competes for our attention.

But, the message of Jesus and up these parables is that when it comes to following him and living in the kingdom it's all or nothing.