Sign up for the “Joy of Discipline” class, beginning next Sunday, led by Rev. Thomas Harper · Visit the “Gratitude Table” in the Fellowship Walk to write a note of gratitude to one of the 3rd Grade students who received their Bible this morning.
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What appetites are in danger of controlling you? What do you think money and possessions represent in your life?
Questions for Conversation or Reflection
And he said to them, “Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of possessions.” – Luke 12:15
Key Verse for the Week
3) Invest outside of self
2) Pursue what is real
1) Be careful of your appetites

First in a Series, “A Diet of the Mind”
The Greyhound’s Mistake
So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not rich toward God.”²¹But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’²⁰And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.’¹⁹Then he said, ‘I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.¹⁸And he thought to himself, ‘What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops?’¹⁷Then he told them a parable: “The land of a rich man produced abundantly.¹⁶¹⁵And he said to them, “Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of possessions.”But he said to him, “Friend, who set me to be a judge or arbitrator over you?”¹⁴Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me.”Luke 12:13-21 ¹³
“Everything is permissible for me," but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me," but I will not be mastered by anything. 1 Corinthians 6:12 (CSB)