Father, I ask now that this very, at least in my weak estimation, complicated text would become clear.

And through the clarity of the text as Jesus lays it out and Matthew lays it out

Christ would become clear and big and glorious and amazing,

and that he would win our affections

and that the boom factor would happen wherever we need it.

Pray this in Jesus great name, Amen.

John Dewey, have you ever heard of him?

John Dewey was the American Educational Force

or Reformer in the beginning part of the 20th century.

And in 1952 1952 he died.

And he said, we never think

until we have been confronted with a problem.

That may be an overstatement, but not by much.

Because thinking is hard work.

Very few people do it. Most people are passive. They just respond to whatever

they're watching, conversations. Thinking is hard.

You've got to be a loan to do it pretty much.

You have a piece of paper and a pen.

You think. a pen, you think, especially thinking that leads to truth.

Especially thinking that leads to truth and

and obedience.

That's even the hardest kind,

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