About the Cover: Despite 3 years of diligent searching, no fruit was discovered, as we hear in Jesus’ parable. The owner had every right to have the fig tree cut down. Yet the vinedresser ever patient with this stubborn tree and willing to fertilize and tend to it. Such is the patience of Christ with us! The fruit that we bear as God's people does not happen by our effort that are always the result of Vinedresser, who tends to us and nourishes us with His word.