Summer Blockbusters: The Two Builders The Wise and Foolish Builders 24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not…
Summer Blockbusters THE PHARISEE AND THE TAX COLLECTOR Luke 18:9-14 9 To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable: 10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed:…
Go and Do Likewise. [Read Luke 10:25-37 NRSV] 25Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he said, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 26He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your…
God is Generous! [Read Matthew 20:1-16 NRSV] For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. 2After agreeing with the laborers for the usual daily wage, he sent them into his vineyard. 3When he went out about nine o’clock, he saw others…
Summer Blockbusters The Wheat and the Weeds Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 24 He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to someone who sowed good seed in his field; 25 but while everybody was asleep, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and then went away. 26 So when the plants came…
Summer Blockbusters THE RICH FOOL Luke 12:13-21 He had achieved the American Dream! He worked hard, he produced, he made it to the top. He grew his business to the point where he even had to build new warehouses to store his surplus inventory Most of us would look at…
Romans 12:9-21New International Version (NIV) Love in Action 9 Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. 10 Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. 11 Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. 12 Be joyful in hope, patient…
If you read Jesus’ parables, you discover that normally, when He tells a parable, He tells the story and then He goes on to explain what it means before telling another parable. But in Luke15, Jesus doesn’t pause to explain. He just launches right into the next parable and then the next. Why? To get their…
Summer Blockbusters, Week 2 PARABLE OF THE SOWER AND SEEDS Luke 8:4-8, 11-15 4 When a great crowd gathered and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable: 5 “A sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell on the path and was trampled on, and…
Summer Blockbusters, Week 1 The Prodigal Son Luke 15:11-32 This might be a hard message for you to hear. Some of you may hear what I’ve got to say this morning and think, “I can’t believe it.” Others of you might think, “I don’t believe it.” And then some of you…
