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 [...]

Read Luke 15:1-10Luke 15:1-10English: Contemporary English Version (1999) – CEVOne Sheep 15 1 . Tax collectors l Tax collectors: See the note at . and sinners were all crowding around to listen to Jesus. 2 So the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law of Moses started grumbling, “This man is friendly with sinners. He even eats [...]

Then this message came to me from the Lord: “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds, the leaders of Israel. Give them this message from the Sovereign Lord: What sorrow awaits you shepherds who feed yourselves instead of your flocks. Shouldn’t shepherds feed their sheep? You drink the milk, wear the wool, and butcher the [...]

My mother grew up in a South Carolina textile community better known then as the mill hill or mill village. In elementary school all the children were from that same community, but upon entering junior high school everything changed. Suddenly she was thrown in with the uptown folk and some of them were from well [...]

Jesus was prompted to speak the parable of the great banquet by the matter-of-fact statement of a dinner guest: “What a privilege it would be to have a share in the Kingdom of God!” Jesus response would have reminded his Jewish listeners of all they had been taught through the prophets. Especially they would have [...]