Four short parables point to the surpassing value of the kingdom of God and the need to find it now.
Although some adults tried to keep children away from Jesus, he welcomed them in Mark 10:13-16 as models of how to enter the kingdom...
The church in Thessalonica not only followed worthy examples but also became one itself.
Dying and rising with Christ through faith transforms wives and husbands and solves the basic problem of marriages.