Week 3 – PARABLES The Goldfish & The Parakeet – Lary Stucker This week’s Lent devotional is one of Jesus’s more controversial parables; the unjust steward in Luke chapter 16. When I was a little kid, I wanted a parakeet, so my parents bought me a goldfish. Seriously. How could they confuse this cheap dime-store […]
Week 3 – PARABLES Repentance – Rev. Ashton Oxenden (The Earnest Communicant: A Course of Preparation for the Lord’s Table, 1856, pp. 14-16) Meditation: LUKE XVIII. 13. “THE PUBLICAN, STANDING AFAR OFF, WOULD NOT LIFT UP SO MUCH AS HIS EYES UNTO HEAVEN.” What a pattern of a truly humble and contrite soul! Let me […]
Week 3 – PARABLES Adding Water to Milk – Karisa Stucker “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” – Corrie Ten Boom What is worry? In this unpredictable life, unfortunate circumstances that come up and cause thoughts and feelings of despair and worry. Jesus makes it very clear […]
Week 3 – PARABLES Mustard Seed – Nick Tunnicliffe Lent is a season for disciples to prepare for the immanent cross. This, of course, means we must join Jesus for his 40 days in the desert. In order to be equipped for the cross, we must first be able to stand confidently as children […]
Week 3 – PARABLES Keep Bothering – Jay and Andrea Allerton Here are the parables that jumped out at us, both having to do with persistence in prayer. The parable of the widow and the parable of a friend asking for three loaves of bread at midnight: in both we see that Jesus wants […]
