Year B, Lectionary 92
Hate feeling lost on Sundays at church? Searching for a better explanation of the Bible than what you hear from your pastor's sermon? Check out the following collection of audio, video, and text commentaries from various Christian experts for a better understanding of today's scripture that deal with: Change • Death • Dream • Faith • Father • Fatherhood • Formation • Gift • Grateful • Growth • Harvest • History • Hope • Idolize • Joy • Judgment • Kingdom • Love • Parable • Patience • Powerlessness • Praise • Prophecy • Seed • Transformation • Tree •
“the parables are meant to function as riddles, right. They are meant to kind of draw you into the mystery of the Kingdom by both revealing some aspect of it, they are meant to teach something, but at the same time that they reveal they also conceal. There's a mysterious element to all of the parables of Jesus.”
“he wants to show through the weakness of its members that the power of the kingdom is not from them but from God and that through...the way it doesn't cohere with previous empires of the world, that it's not a kingdom of this world but that it's a kingdom of heaven. That's the message of the Parable of the Mustard Seed.”
"we're not immune to tragic events or to illness or to anything. We just have a different, I guess, we just have a different way of approaching it and that's through the lens of faith."
In the latest episode of the 1 Christian 1 Topic Podcast "Faith Amidst Tragedy," we have a conversation with Liz on faith, suffering, and prayer. More