Luke 17:10

"[Jesus continued,] "When a servant comes in from plowing or taking care of sheep, does his master say, 'Come in and eat with me'? No, he says,..."

How is your perception? A humorous account of a hanging leads to some observations on how frequently our perception is wrong.

What is your motivation to serve? Sometimes we just need to do things out of sense of duty to be faithful.

When I recall how Mr. Ellis brought me back into the human fold, I remember that Jesus once took ten lepers in hand and did the same. Philip Gulley uses his homespun charm to pay tribute to a hero, tell a self-effacing story about childhood warts and crushes, and weaves it together to remind us of God's love and how we should love others.

"Dear Disciple, What's the hardest miracle to perform? I know many of you would love to see some great miracle of your selection to help you believe....."

In a world seeking to get and acquire, do we pause to give thanks for all we have? Phil Ware uses the parable of the 10 lepers to remind us that we want to be the 1 who returns to give thanks even though we live in a world where most people are not very thankful!