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Matthew 25:36 "Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me." I read the other day that inmates at San Quentin Prison in California had written reviews of the food and had posted it on the foodie website Yelp. In checking out the reviews, some were from visitors who had toured the prison. Here is one of those: "I've been told that the breakfasts here suck, but at least it has a nice view. Easy on/off freeway access, friendly staff, vending machines that work, and a cute yellow line for visitors to follow while being monitored. " For the regulars, the reviews aren't as chipper: "Food's crappy except for Friday which is "Chicken on the Bone" day..and Sunday morning is the microwavable-like Grand Slam breakfast...everyone else there for the most part are dirtbags, with no realistic if any plans of changing. The violence is high to low depending on where your housed..mostly stabbings happen ...

Matthew 6:12 "And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors." The Greek word for debts is opheilema which means something owed, a due; morally, a fault:--debt. The Gospel message is essentially, at its core, a message of the offer forgiveness from God to mankind. I say "offer" because it is does have a very serious condition. When people speak of the "Unconditional Love of God," it seems to me to be inaccurate. Forgiveness from God was and is Christ on the Cross. That is is as conditional as it comes. We must accept the offer, repent, and die to self, and pick up our Cross (those sound much more than "unconditional" too). I have been listening to great sermons from Mark Batterson. In the vision sermons in preparation for his new series of "Garden to City" , there was one of those "Man and Woman in the Street Interviews" where people asked tough questions like "Can a person be a Christian and still believe in Evol...