When I was a boy, the cross on the top of my church was covered with gold leaf. We consider the First Temple, Solomon's Temple, which King David declared "will not be for man". We consider an amazing vision of the Prophet Ezekiel: a valley of dried and disconnected bones rising up and reforming the lost people of God. We consider the result of the gold leaf being put on the cross of my childhood church by a person who was honoring himself and not God - and the greater issue of God speaking to us, sometimes very dramatically and sometimes very quietly.

My wife and I once saw a side-dump trunk tip over and completely bury and crush a car - with a man still inside. It seemed like the perfect example showing that we can die at any time. We look at the Lord's Prayer, its text from the Gospels, what it really meant (as opposed to what we might think it means), and we consider how it relates to us today. We look at the Lord's Prayer as the perfect prayer to offer at any time we are in need - and to offer every single day.

When I was a boy we used to look for particularly salacious or gross stories in the Bible and talk about them on the playground at recess. My favorite one is the bread that God orders Ezekiel to bake - by cooking it over human poo. We look at the Old Testament purity laws and what they were really meant to inspire in the People of God. We look at what they mean for us today. We consider how we can be "pure" in the eyes of God - in a spiritual sense.