Religious leaders ... look to your foundations

Morning: Psalm 80; I Samuel 1:1-20; Acts 1:1-14

Evening: Psalm 77, 79; Luke 20:9-19

Religious leaders are offended at Jesus’s challenges to their authority.  He accuses them of ignoring, even abusing and killing those who call them to account for their actions.  Often, the powerful want to answer only to themselves – which is no accountability at all.  But here they are called to line themselves up with the truth they find in Jesus, who likens himself to the cornerstone of a building, the strong foundation, the key reference point and guide for the whole building.  Leaders, if you want to remain true, build on the cornerstone.  And the cornerstone is not you!