So much of the matter of living the Christian life comes down to a matter of values. A simple way of describing what it means to live the life of the kingdom of God is to say that we should let the things that are most important to God be the things that are most important to us. One of the things that we have in common with the people to whom Jesus spoke is that one of our biggest problems is the materialism of our culture. All three of our texts touch either directly or indirectly on that.
Hosea 11:1-11