As we look forward to Sunday it is my hope and prayer that we will all anticipate meeting with God’s people once again so that we may worship him and be renewed in our understanding that he is our God and we are the sheep of his pasture, we are a kingdom that Jesus has already established by his blood.

t first glance, the teaching of Proverbs 30:8 seems quite strange. The author (Agur) is praying that God would keep him from financial extremes—poverty or riches. We all would probably affirm that we don’t want to experience poverty. But, to ask God to guard him from riches seems opposed to everything in us that longs for the security and peace that wealth provides us.

Yesterday I watched a video covering the Alt- right/ White supremacist march in Charlottesville this past weekend. The reporter and film crew were imbedded with the Alt- right marchers from Friday morning until Sunday evening. As the timeline of events unfolded I witnessed an escalation of hate, human pride, and evil right before my eyes.