Matthew 20:1-16 Did you ever play a pickup sport when you were a youth. Not a formal sport with adult coaches, but a simple game where two kids are picked to be the leaders of the teams. They stand and face the rest of the kids wanting to play and begin to pick their team….
Luke 15: 11-31 We come in our series on the parables of Jesus to this Easter Sunday and the Parable of the Prodigal Son. The titles of the Parables are sometimes misleading. Last week’s parable, The Sower, is really a parable about soils. This week’s parable, The Prodigal Son, should really be renamed the parable…
Mark 4:1-20 Today’s parable is one familiar to us, the Parable of the Sower, found in Mark 4:1-20. This is a parable about generosity. Let me explain: “Again Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out…
Luke 18:9-14 When I was a pastor in Ohio in the United States, I lived next door to a man who came right out of the movie The Deerhunter – which was filmed locally. He was a Vietnam war veteran and worked in one of the local steel mills. He was a huntin’ and fishin’,…
Matthew 18:21-35 Last week I used an illustration from a novel by Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities. This novel begins with the famous line, “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” It is a novel that takes place in the two cities of London and Paris during the…