Just one verse long, the parable of The Yeast has one simple point. The Kingdom of Heaven spreads like yeast through alot of dough. How much dough? You’ll have to watch and find out. How many people can know about Jesus in the world? The Gospel spreads as quickly as lips can share the message to ears that want to hear.
The parable of the Wedding Banquet is the final in a series of three that Jesus told to the crowds on “Busy Tuesday” of Holy Week. The first was about the ministry of John the Baptist. The second was about the ministry of Jesus. The final parable, the Wedding Banquet, is about the ministry of the church.
The Parable of the Two Debtors is short, but the circumstances surrounding the parable are powerful. Jesus isn’t preaching to the masses on the mount. He’s at the house of a pharisee who invited Jesus over for a meal just so he could trap him in his words. Jesus instead gives them a lesson in mercy and forgiveness.
In the parable of The Ten Minas the king will return. While he is gone, he gives his servants work to do. What will he fine when he returns?
In Matthew 25 Jesus tells three parables to explain some of the details he gave in Matthew 24 about the end of the world. In the parable of The Ten Virgins he encourages us to wait and be ready for his coming.
Heard of the Lost Son? Some have called it the crown jewel of Jesus’ parables. As we continue our series on Jesus’ divine stories you should know that the Sunday this is being offered is Last Judgement Sunday. I did this because there are so many people who are fearful of the Last Day.
“We spend how much on pet costumes?!” Halloween isn’t what it used to be, but that doesn’t mean it’s a warm fuzzy commercialized American holiday either. There are some pitfalls with the dark day. This Sunday we looked at some of the dangers that you might find as the occult can creep into your trick or treating fun.
God has given us many things, family and friends might be at the top of that list of gifts. Our finances are a large part of how we relate to the world around us and worship our God. This Sunday we close out our annual stewardship focus – One in Christ – with a look at our finances.
When God asks for obedience he wants it right away, not tomorrow. The parable of the Two Sons is an illustration of what the spiritual landscape was in Jesus’ day. The common people, sinners, had fallen away from God. When John the Baptist called them to repentance, they listened. The Jewish leaders said all the right things, but they refused to repent. God’s call to repentance is just as real and urgent today as it was two thousand years ago.
The last shall be first and the first shall be last. That cryptic phrase accurately describes how rewards are given out in the kingdom of heave. This Sunday we look at the parable of the Workers in the Vineyard to see how God rewards us at the end of our lives.
Is there anything more valuable than the gospel? Jesus shared the parables of the Hidden Treasure and the Pear of Great Price just to explore that idea. What would you be willing to give up for the sake of the gospel? Everything?
Oh, what of that? And what of that? The sower sows his seeds of the gospel in the field of the world. What happens to that seed as it falls on different soils? Who is the one who makes it grow. We’ll look at these questions in the first lesson of our new Bible class on the parables of Jesus, Parabolic.
A study of Luke 24 reveals the resurrection of our Lord Jesus. There are a number of questions that the casual observer might have. All of them are answered in this Bible study.
God died on the cross. That profound truth changes the world. There is more to Luke 23 than just the crucifixion. Watch as we look at “why?”, “how?”, and the “so what?” of Jesus’ death.
When Jesus instituted the Lord’s Supper on the night that he was betrayed, he gave his church the second of two Sacraments. With these means of grace we can comfort the afflicted. There were a number of other events that happened in this important chapter. We’ll take a look at the Lord’s Supper and those other events in our Bible study.