[Happy Thanksgiving! While I hope to get back to regular new Sunday posts soon, here is an Integral study on today's Gospel Reading, taken from Matthew's Gospel.] According to Luke's telling, the Parable of the Banquet is a beautiful story of God’s willingness to do anything to ensure the Kingdom is as full as … Continue reading The Parable of the Great Banquet in Matthew (Repost)
[This week's Gospel reading is the Parable of the Day Labourers. Since I'm still emerging from the Romans fog, I thought I'd share this post on the parable from last summer's series on the Parables of Jesus.] -- Last time, we rewound and started joining Matthew’s account of Jesus’ travels to Jerusalem with the Parable … Continue reading The Parable of the Day Labourers (Repost)
[Here's a confession: When I was planning my Summer series on the Parables, I checked to make sure the parables from Matthew's Gospel weren't coming up soon in the lectionary, but failed to do so for the parables from Luke, which has left me a bit caught out this Fall! At any rate, today's Gospel … Continue reading The Parable of the Tax-Collector and the Pharisee [Re-Post]
Well, our long journey this Summer through the Parables of Jesus has come to an end. Today I’d like to quickly touch on the major themes of the series, and how they are all brought together in the last set of parables recorded in Matthew. We began the series by defining parables and exploring what … Continue reading Kingdom Stories: Concluding Thoughts
The final parable Jesus utters in Matthew is not actually much of a parable. We call it the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats, but other than referring to them in passing, the sheep and the goats have nothing to do with it and he’s almost entirely devoted to explaining it. It’s as though … Continue reading The Parable of the Sheep and the Goats
