A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side.” Luke 10:31 Sometime in 2019, I was driving to work in Lagos, Nigeria, around 6 am. It…
Which of these three do you think was a neighbour to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?” Luke 10:36 Yesterday, we began a conversation about the story of the good Samaritan. It’s a familiar story, but as…
He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’[a]; and, ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’” Luke 10:27 We are all familiar with the…
Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?” Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times” Matthew 18:21-22 Let’s…
Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved” Matthew…
“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field” Matthew 13:44 What do you…
“The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into a large amount of flour until it worked all through the dough” Matthew 13:33 Raise your hand if you haven’t eaten anything made with flour this…
“Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds come and perch in its branches.” Matthew 13:32 Every seed a sower holds…
“Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. ” Mark 4:27 Yesterday, we learned that God’s strategy for us is growth! Now, the question becomes: how do we…
‘No,’ he answered, ‘because while you are pulling the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them.“ Matthew 13:29 NIV Yesterday, we began looking at another parable about seeds and sowing. This time, Jesus focuses on how the enemy reacts…