Series: Kingdom Stories
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"He will come again to judge the living and the dead." When we recite the creed, we...
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"Greed is good," said Gordon Gekko, but Jesus disagrees and tells a story to...
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Some parables seem designed to unsettle us, to directly conflict with our instincts...
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The story Jesus tells about weeds and wheat growing together in a field has long...
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We live in an age of contempt, and we're not the first society to feel such for those...
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In this well-known and beloved parable, Jesus describes two types of people: those who...
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We begin with a discussion of the first of Jesus's parables in the Gospel of Mark: the...