Are we to go and spend that much on bread and give it to them to eat? How many loaves do you have?

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Thanks be to God.

Good morning, everyone.

I want to start by playing a famous scene from the original Star Wars movie.

This is Luke Skywalker contemplating his future as he looks out on a scene with two sons on Tatooine.

But I particularly want you to pay attention to the music, to listen to the music playing in the background.

Thanks, Hope.

And looking at the text, how do you identify places in the passage that you think would be particularly helpful for someone who is drifting or struggling in this area, particularly as you're preparing for the sermon ahead?

Yeah.

I tend to think in the, like when we're thinking about being comfortable, it's often idols that we have that we're relying on more than on God and that's sort of led to this form of complacency.

And one of the helpful things, this was from Brian Rosner who teaches here.

He talks about identification of idols as about, you know, what do we love and What do we trust in and what do we serve? Because that language of idols, it's not necessarily helpful for people.

They don't necessarily identify things as idols.

But if it's things that we're loving more than God or things that we're trusting in more than God, things that we're serving, if we actually look at what we're doing and how we're spending our time, that's often the way to identify the idol.

Do you have any tips for how to do that? Like, how do you make it pretty specific? Don't just land them one of the one-two punch, but the second one afterwards.