A child is a wonderful thing! What a joy to raise up a child, helping them learn to walk and talk. Helping them to make wise choices, cleaning and bandaging scraped knees. Watching as they learn who they are, what their skills and interests are. And the satisfaction and peace that comes with seeing the [...]

A man planted a vineyard and let it out to farmers, and went away for a long while. In time, he sent a servant to collect some of the fruit… With prolonged absence of the true owner, we begin to think we are in charge. It’s fairly natural. And when we get used to being [...]

When reading Christ’s parable about the wicked vineyard farmers it is most helpful to recognize the symbolism involved within. Israel is the vineyard, God is the owner, and the religious leaders are the wicked tenant farmers. The messengers are the prophets and the son represents God’s only Son, Jesus Christ. Read the parable found in Luke 20: 9-18Luke 20: 9-18English: [...]

Jesus stunned the religious with his meal companions. He saw something in them that the world didn’t see. And his interest in the lost has propelled his body for two millenia. As Jesus was going down the road, he saw Matthew sitting at his tax-collection booth. “Come be my disciple,” Jesus said to him. So [...]

What stands out throughout Scripture, but especially in the “Lost” parables, is the lengths to which God is willing to go. This is expressed well in the parable of the lost coin: Or suppose a woman has ten valuable coins and loses one. Won’t she light a lamp and look in every corner of the [...]