Sitting At The Foot of the Mountain

    We have set up the context for the next two parables in Part 1.     Jesus will teach on two sons and a landowner.  Jesus has entered Je...

     Jesus is having  yet another dispute with the Pharisees.  He enters the temple courts.  He begins to teach the people and then here com...

Christ in the Passover

     The parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector is an especially powerful one, because sometimes we are the Pharisee, and sometimes, ...

     We last left the poor beggar winging his way to heaven, where he now resides, at Abraham's side.  Abraham is the father of the Jewi...

     If we get a little uncomfortable about money, especially when Jesus is teaching about it, good.  It's always good to ponder what bo...

     I find it fascinating that the Parable of the Shrewd Manager comes right after the famous Parable of the Prodigal Son.  Hmmm...one is w...