11th
Matthew 7:21 - 28

vs 28
The people saw that Jesus was teaching from authority.

Jesus as the Prophet
John 6:14, 15
Deuteronomy 18:14 - 20

A prophet like Moses
Regiving the Law as Moses originally gave the Law
Wanting to change one's attitudes

Like Moses
Declaring the New Covenant
Jane was waiting for them at the table, with a sketchbook open. “I have sketched things out according to the descriptions,” she said as she turned to a stylized drawing of the stadium from above.

Daria looked closer. Jane’s style didn’t obscure the details. She noticed that Jane had put the ghost very close to where she and Sandi had seen the scorch marks before sunrise. “So, you managed to pinpoint the location from the descriptions?”

“Yes. I had to re-read it a few times, but I did.”

“So, he like, somehow got onto the field without being seen,” Sandi said.

“And therefore may need to investigate the stadium’s infrastructure,” Daria said. “But that would hardly be online or at the library.”

“The Council would have the data,” Jane said.

“But they would hardly be willing to give it out to a teenage investigator or reporter, even the one who exposed the fake interview,” Daria responded.

Jane shrugged. “Or maybe you could ask the fourth vigilante.”

Daria shrugged while resisting the temptation to glance at Sandi. “I’m sure she’s already looking into it.”

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4th
Matthew 6:19 - 34
Infomercial
- Instill a fear
- Sell the product

Jesus
- Tells us our need
- Gives us Himself as the solution

Storing treasure incorrectly
- Outcome: Worry
- Solution: Seek first the Kingdom of Heaven

The Problem
Storing Your Treasure
vs 21
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
- My heart is shaped by what I give attention to.
- The problem is not accumulating wealth, it is when this becomes what we trust.

vs 22 - 23
Focus
What you are staring at.

vs 24

Money - a good servant, but a terrible master!

Responsibility says 'What is mine to do?'
Worry says 'How can I control what happens next?'

Our lives are not held together by productivity, but by trust in Jesus.

2 Timothy 3:16, 17
Useful
Scripture is profitable. It accumulates in your life as you learn more from it.

Teaching
Scripture says:
Kingdom
Generosity
Trust
Rebuking
Don't normalise harmful behaviour.
Worry is not wisdom.
Stingyness is not frugality.
Correcting
Money is a servant.
Treasure stored in Heaven
Father's security
24 Something Unnatural
Lawndale may have been in shock following the Groundhog Day Attack, but Sunday night baseball games were still a fixture.

Jamie White might have been a member of Lawndale High’s football team, but he was also a fan of Lawndale’s local baseball team.

Therefore, he was at the Carter Stadium for the latest Sunday night game, along with Jeffy.

“It’s been a while since we’ve just gone to a game,” Jeffy Brown-Mercer said. “And not have had to worry about something happening.”

“Games haven’t been interrupted yet.”


They soon found their seats and the game started.

However, something happened a little over twenty minutes later, after one of Lawndale’s team had scored a home run. The lights started flickering, and then a what appeared to be a ghost appeared on the field.

This immediately disrupted the game, and both teams were called to the side, although not before some players had flaming balls thrown at them.


“Attention! The rest of tonight’s game has been postponed until tomorrow evening. Please leave the stands in an orderly fashion.”


Out in the parking lot, Jeffy turned to Jamie as he opened the car. “There is always a first time.”

“That’s right. I’ll call Quinn when I get home,” Jamie said.

“I’m sure that she might of heard of it on the radio,” Jeffy said.

“Or maybe we can go to the Morgendorffers first. She and Daria might want a first hand account.”

Jeffy agreed.


Helen came to the door in response to the doorbell. “Jamie? Jeffy? Quinn’s in her room, with Stacy, Tiffany and Tori.”

“Thanks, Mrs. Morgendorffer,” Jeffy said.


Quinn was sharing with her friends what she had found so far regarding the SpiderGirl knockoff clothes that had been released two weeks earlier.

“So, Theresa had come through, last week, while we were dealing with the favorite animal fad and failure assignment,” Quinn said, referring to a worker at the Cashmans department store.

“You said that earlier,” Tori said.

“True,” Quinn said as she brought up a document on her laptop.

Stacy looked at it. “So, it wasn’t one of Cashmans’ usual suppliers,” she said as she read what Theresa had provided.

“Exactly,” Quinn said. She was about to say more, but there was a knock at the door, and Jamie opened it.

“Hi, Quinn.”

“Jamie! I thought you were at baseball,” Quinn responded.

Jeffy entered after him. “The game was interrupted by something strange.”

That got Quinn’s attention. “What do you mean?”

“There was a ghost…” Jamie began.

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The fallout from the dissolution of the Fashion Club continues. SpiderGirl struggles with aspects of the crime within Lawndale.

fanfiction.net: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14543824/8/Spider-Quinn

Archive Of Our Own: https://archiveofourown.org/works/93005701/chapters/249352961

Reviews and/or comments are welcome, and would be appreciated.
05 From Oreburgh to Eterna
A little over two months after the events at Mt. Coronet and the rematch with Steven, May arrived back in Oreburgh City. She had arrived in Sinnoh a week earlier and had caught several Pokémon she had started training. She wasn’t sure she was ready to face Roark, but she remembered that she wasn’t sure when she challenged Roxanne either.

But first, she wanted to explore the city. There had to be more than the mines.


She soon found the Mining Museum. ‘I have heard about this,’ she thought. ‘Or was it the one in Kanto?’ She shook her head. She didn’t want to think about Kanto!


“How may I help you?”

“I’m just looking around,” May answered.

“I can give a tour.”

“Sure.”


May took in the various exhibits, learning about the various fossil Pokemon that could be revived.

“They don’t have this in Hoenn,” she commented, even as she briefly remembered seeing something similar on display in Roxanne’s gym.

“They don’t?” the assistant asked.

“I don’t think so.”

Even so, the idea that prehistoric Pokemon could be revived from the fossils was weird. ‘Another mystery,’ she thought. She shook her head. It was time she started preparing for her upcoming battle with Roark.

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27th
Matthew 7:7 - 14
Ask, Seek and Knock
Ask and it will be given to you.
Seek and it will be given to you.
Knock and it will be opened.

God's way is not our way.

Continuous fervent action.
Keep on asking.
Keep on seeking.
Keep on knocking.
Look around at the fallen world around us and refuse to accept it as the final reality.
Knock on the door of the future God has promised.

Luke 11:11 - 13

The ultimate gift is Jesus Himself.

The narrow way - The way of radical generosity, etc.

Following the narrow way - becoming the people of the Resurrection.
Someone who the Morgendorffers thought was dead turns up at their door, seeking refuge. Tensions between Quinn and Sandi come to a head.

fanfiction.net: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14543824/7/Spider-Quinn

Archive Of Our Own: https://archiveofourown.org/works/93005701/chapters/248095941

Reviews and/or comments are welcome, and would be appreciated.
20th
Matthew 7:1 - 6
It's about the responsibilities people have for one another.

Relationships

vs 2
What you use to judge another will be used against you.
vs 3
Someone pointing out a small flaw in someone else while ignoring a massive flaw they themselves have.

Be generous.

vs 6

1 Timothy 1:2, or 2 Timothy 1:2.
(Applied to yourself or to your church community, rather than Timothy)
SpiderGirl paused. An Oscorp team was coming. “Talon!”

“I hear them,” Ninja Talon said as she knocked back the agent she had been sparring with over one of his webbed up colleagues.

“Gotta go,” SpiderGirl said, before both she and Ninja Talon withdrew back behind the corner.


The Alchemax team leader managed to reach the web dissolving fluid, but he only had time to dissolve his own bonds before the Oscorp security team arrived. He headed in the direction that SpiderGirl and Ninja Talon had retreated.


Peterson knew something was happening. ‘But I can’t just barge in without a warrant,’ she thought, not for the first time. But the various employees in the lobby were agitated about something.


“We’ve captured most of the Alchemax team, sir. SpiderGirl found them first.”

“I thought she might,” Osborn responded. “Hand them over to Officer Peterson, who is still in the lobby.”

“Sir?”

“It will keep her busy, and we won’t be antagonizing the LDPD too much. I still don’t want them interfering with Operation Rooftop.”

“Yes, sir.”


“He’s still following,” SpiderGirl said. “But we need to know what he’s after.”

“You’re saying we may need to team up?” Ninja Talon asked.

“Alliance of convenience.”


The Alchemax agent was suspicious. He was sure that SpiderGirl and Ninja Talon would stop him from actually obtaining his goal. “This is suspicious,” he said.

“I know it seems that way, but this way we’ll all find out what Oscorp is doing,” SpiderGirl responded.

“But I won’t get it.”

“No,” Ninja Talon said. “But you’ll find out what it is.”

“I’ll give you that. I guess I have no choice for now but to agree.”

“Good,” SpiderGirl said. “But now we still need to avoid Osborn’s security.”


“Peterson,” an Oscorp official said as he entered the lobby.

“I’m here.”

“Security has apprehended members of an Alchemax infiltration team. They will be here within a few minutes.”

‘I can’t arrest them by myself,’ she thought. She grabbed her radio and requested her partner to call for backup.


The Enigma continued downwards, to the second floor. “This is where it is,” she murmured.

“Stop where you are!” A security guard said from down the corridor.

“I don’t have time for this!” she said as she sent a wave of telekinetic force and knocked him off his feet. “One of these doors.”

“Wait!” The guard said. “You don’t know what’s there.”

‘Protection!’ The Enigma thought as she raised a forcefield. “Then tell me.”

The guard remained silent.

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6th
Matthew 6:1 - 6
Recalibrating the heart and the understanding of the Law.

He is giving us a warning. We need to keep our pride in check.

God calls us to serve, to be a reflection of Him and to point people to Jesus.

vs 3, 4
The reward of God rather than the reward of man.

church, gospel of matthew, matthew 6, sermon on the mount,


13th
Matthew 6:5 - 15
The Upgrade to the Upgrade

Greater Righteousness is a Matter of the Heart.

And the Lord's Prayer gets to the Heart of It.

Theology - Not only what is said, but how it's said.

Matthew - five discouses that parallel the five books of the Torah; the Sermon on the Mount being the first discourse.

The Lord's Prayer.
The goal - Human flourishing.

Faith is a team sport. It's not meant to be a solitary experience.

vs 11 - 13
Provision
- In an attitude of dependence on and trust of God.

Forgiveness

Getting the infection out.
We are in constant need of forgiveness.
We aren't meant to do it alone.

Protection
- Don't push beyond the limits.
- There's an adversary.
Sam ran to the elevator and pressed the button, but Fields was right on his heels.

“Wait,” Fields said as she came up to him.

“I’m looking at things here.”

“You’re going to get into more trouble with Osborn.”

“I know,” Sam responded as the elevator door opened.


Fields followed Sam into the elevator. “You’ve poked the hornet’s nest. You know that, right?”

“I guess so.”

“Which floor?”

“What do you mean?” Sam asked as the doors closed.

“You want to get away from Osborn don’t you?”

“Didn’t he send you after me?”

“He did,” Fields confirmed. “But I want you to get away. So which floor?”

“I don’t trust you,” Sam said. “The roof.”

“It doesn’t go to the roof,” Fields said “And we’re already on the top floor. We’ll go down to the floor just below us and then use the stairs.”

“Different idea. Find me a phone.”

“Calling home?”


Sandi Griffin had slept in, as the past week had been rather hectic. She was making a late breakfast when the phone rang. She quickly picked it up.

“Hello, Sandi Griffin here.”

“It’s Sam. I need help! I crept into that new Oscorp building.”

“What!” Sandi said in concern. “You, like, shouldn’t have done that.”

Sam sighed. “I realise that now. So I may need your help, with or without Daria.”

“Trying to find her would take time. I’ll get there quickly. Locate you when I get there.”


Fields had listened in. “So, your sister and this Daria are two of the vigilantes.”

“No comment.”

“I’ll take that as a yes.”

“I’m not saying anything more,” Sam said. “We’ll go to the roof now and wait for Sandi.”

“Well, I won’t. I’ll be trying to keep Osborn busy.”


Sandi called the Morgendorffers, but there was no answer. ‘Of course not,’ she thought. Helen was probably working overtime, Daria was either being Dafoanairi or at the Historia and Quinn was probably either shopping or at the Historia as well. She looked at the map of Lawndale on her wall. The Historia was in a completely different direction to the new Oscorp building. “Not enough time,” she murmured as she tied her hair back and grabbed her mask.

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6th
Matthew 6:1 - 6
Recalibrating the heart and the understanding of the Law.

He is giving us a warning. We need to keep our pride in check.

God calls us to serve, to be a reflection of Him and to point people to Jesus.

vs 3, 4
The reward of God rather than the reward of man.
23 Into Oscorp
SpiderGirl had patrolled that part of Lawndale many times before. But she noticed something new. A building that Oscorp had bought and refurbished was now open. She swung closer, but carefully, as she was sure that Norman Osborn would have had security cameras installed in case she wanted to infiltrate. There were many staff members milling about.

She then swung into a tree nearby and took out her burner phone, before sending a message to Ninja Talon.

Oscorp facility on second block of Maple is now open.

There wasn’t a response, but that was to be expected, given it was still early on a Saturday morning. She continued patrolling, but remained within a few blocks.


Sam Griffin wasn’t sure why he had decided to walk through the semi industrial neighborhoods on Lawndale’s southern outskirts. He did want to get out of the house, after the recent events in Lawndale from Groundhog Day onwards. Learning that his mother and sister had powers was also shocking, but he had learned that around the same time. He was thinking about that when he saw the new Oscorp facility up the street.
‘I can have a look. Then Sandi will have to listen to me more,’ he thought.


He approached the front door and saw that many people were coming in and out. “I can investigate Oscorp too!” he declared to himself. He soon slipped inside.


Officer Xanthe Peterson was also nearby, after having responded to a tip off about suspicious activity. She parked outside the Oscorp facility. ‘But what sort of suspicious activity?’ she wondered, as the report had been brief, just stating that there was suspicious activity. ‘That’s par for the course these days.’ Especially since Norman Osborn had left the hospital.
‘Lynn Anders was just the beginning of it,’ she added mentally, thinking of a local night time host and journalist who had been disgraced after interviewing a fake SpiderGirl. She got out of the car and looked at the building more closely.


Norman Osborn was inspecting the facility himself, as he wanted to ensure that it was up to his standards and that there was nothing out of order. As he turned into another corridor, a report come in. “Mr. Osborn to the foyer.”

He picked up an intercom phone and dialed the foyer. “Osborn here, what’s the problem?”

“A young boy has been found sneaking around.”

“A boy,” he considered. “I shall be there right away.”


Osborn saw him straight away. “Sam Griffin!” he said.

“You know him, sir?” one of the security officers asked.

“Yes. He’s the older son of Linda Griffin,” Osborn answered.

“Should we call her?”

“I’ll talk to him first.”

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