'parables of Jesus' Tagged Posts (Page 2)
Toward Sunday
We are inviting our community to Give Up Certainty for Lent as we root ourselves in the parables of Jesus. We move into our fourth week and the parable of The Laborers in the Vineyard. What is a parable? Exact definitions vary from “stories of life with religious or spiritual lessons” to “metaphors or similes that take narrative form.” We will be operating on an understanding of parables as “thin places” where the usual boundaries between heaven and earth,…
Parables
“…Jesus’ parables of judgment…are about an action going somewhere to happen. They are not about a system of static recurrences in which time goes on forever-where there is always, by the rules of the system, time for a second chance at everything. They do not allow you the luxury of a historical perspective in which a step taken too soon or a move made too late can always be remedied the next time around. Rather, they are about a world…
Prayer
Rescue me, O God, from the foolishness of presuming to know what I do not know. Save me from failing to trust whom I can trust. Allow your comfort to enter me. Help me prepare for you as you are and will be. Amen. (based on a prayer by John Indermark from Parables and Passion p. 77)
Giving up certainty
“In these times I don’t, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don’t want what I know and want what I don’t know.” ~Marsilio Ficino from The Letters of Marsilio Ficino vol. 3
Toward Sunday
We are inviting our community to Give Up Certainty for Lent as we root ourselves in the parables of Jesus. We move into our third week and the Parable of The Wise & Foolish Bridesmaids. What is a parable? Exact definitions vary from “stories of life with religious or spiritual lessons” to “metaphors or similes that take narrative form.” We will be operating on an understanding of parables as “thin places” where the usual boundaries between heaven and earth, holy and…
Weeds
How does one live in a world where weeds do infest the ground, and evil does rear its head in powerful ways that defy certainty and simple answers? The Parable of the Weeds. Matthew 13.24-30
Toward Sunday
We begin a new worship series this week. We are inviting our community to Give Up Certainty for Lent as we root ourselves in the parables of Jesus. What is a parable? Exact definitions vary from “stories of life with religious or spiritual lessons” to “metaphors or similes that take narrative form.” We will be operating on an understanding of parables as “thin places” where the usual boundaries between heaven and earth, holy and ordinary, known and mysterious, come together. Those are…
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