Luke 15: 1-10 A little boy needed $100 for a school field trip, so his mother told him to ask God for it. He prayed for two weeks, but nothing turned up. So, he decided to ask God for the money in a letter. At the post office, the postmaster opened the letter to God…
Tag: parables
Only One Appropriate Reaction
Luke 15: 1-3, 11b-24 An old Chinese proverb goes like this: If you wish to be happy for one hour, get intoxicated. If you wish to be happy for three days, get married. If you wish to be happy for eight days, kill your pig and eat it. If you wish to be happy forever,…
Ask Him
Mark 4: 26-34 It is in the fourth chapter of Mark the readers and hearers are told if you don’t understand the parable of the sower of seeds, how will you understand all parables? In this chapter, there is the parable of the sower (we read together Matthew’s version last July), the parable of the…
Subtle, Slight & Selling It All
When and where God rules and reigns the subtle and slight things that God uses become those things that have great influence and saturation. Such things can be missed or ignored, but the slight and subtle things can reveal the nature, heart, grace, and power of God.
Psalm 102 in The Message 