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Category: Teachings of Jesus

  • An Open Kingdom

    The Parable of the weeds The Parable of the Weeds, like the Parable of the Sower in the same chapter, is one of the easy parables because Jesus explained its meaning to his disciples. We know that the farmer is the Son of Man and the field is the world. The good seed represents the…

  • What’s The Bad News?

    “You’re going to hell!” I had thought to continue my series on the parables Jesus used to describe the kingdom of God. The next one is the Parable of the Weeds. But before I get to it, I think I need to write a little bit about hell. On Come As A Child, an album…

  • Love Is Never Wrong

    If you want to be right, love first and always. The one command that Jesus gave to summarize all his teaching was, “Love one another.” He reiterated this command several times in the last hours before his crucifixion. He knew he was about to abandon his disciples and that they would experience the disillusionment of…

  • Give The Devil His Due

    A recent article in The Atlantic by Stephanie McCrummen provides a frightening and vivid account of how a pair of charismatic Christians established a church, decided that the bookstore across the street was a hub of demonic activity, and then brought to bear through social networking various pressures and influences that caused the owner of…

  • Putting It Together

    The Parable of the Sower: Good Soil After my last post, I needed to take a break. My brothers and sisters said it was dark and that I was too hard on myself. Perhaps they were right. I have often observed that coming to a place of repentance sometimes requires seeing yourself in the worst…

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