Posts with the category “when-jesus-told-stories-what-the-parables-teach-us-about-life”

Jesus ended the greatest sermon ever preached not with a theological argument or a call to learn more. He ended it with a story about two builders and a storm. The parable of the wise and foolish builders in Matthew 7 is a direct challenge to anyone who has ever heard the words of Jesus and assumed that hearing was enough.   Read More

One of the easiest ways to waste your life is to spend it wishing you had someone else's. Jesus told a parable that cuts right through that temptation and challenges us to ask a harder question: what are you doing with what God has already given you?  Read More

Jesus told stories that cut straight to the heart. One of His most convicting parables is found in Luke 18, and it is aimed directly at religious people who have grown impressed with themselves. If you go to church, read your Bible, and consider yourself a person of faith, this one is for you.   Read More

When good things get placed in the wrong position, they become idols. And we use those good things to make very reasonable, very logical excuses for why we cannot focus on God right now.  Read More

Forgiveness is releasing your right to revenge because you have entrusted justice to God. It is saying, "Making them pay is not my job." It is letting go, not because they deserve it, but because you do not want to live in that prison anymore.  Read More