Address to the St. Louis Weekend to Remember® Volunteers

It is good to see each of you and be able to join you today via webcam.

We are on the beginning of some of the greatest ministry opportunities in the history of FamilyLife®. There are many individual reasons, some very personal, as to why each of us are involved with this ministry. But the underlying reason for all of us is that we want to share the Biblical principles of marriage with those around us because we know that this message is life changing.

I would like to take us to Matthew 25:14-30, The Parable of the Talents.

• A friend's book The Path of Consequence caused me to re-think the application of this parable on a day-to-day basis in my own life.

• God has given each of us talents to use in his Kingdom's work. I usually thought of the talents in terms of material possessions when studying this, not extending my thinking to gifts and abilities.

• The protagonists find themselves on a journey to discover a hidden treasure in the book The Path of Consequence by John W. Richardson. The lessons they learned as they looked for and pursued clues...