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Many of Jesus parables begin with the phrase the kingdom of heaven is like and then he tells a story to teach about the kingdom two of the shortest parables are about a hidden treasure in a field and a really expensive pearl in both instances the man sells everything they have in order to get what they've just found.

Thrifting has become really popular in our culture and what are the reasons it's so popular is because if yo...

In Luke 15 Jesus tells three salvation parables one about a lost sheep one about a lost coin and one about a lost son the parable of the lost son a father and his two sons and his younger son comes to him and asks for his inheritance early this is a big no no in this culture essentially it's as if the younger son is coming to his father and saying father I wish you were dead but he gets his inheritance goes off and lives the go...

In the parable The Wicked Tenet Jesus tells a story about a landowner who builds a Vineyard and then rinse it out to some farmers and moves to another place this was actually a very common occurrence in Israel now most of us can't relate to farming but we can relate to an owner tenet relationship where the owner entrusts the care of their property to the tenet and problems arise when the tenet does not take good care of the pro...

In the Gospels of Matthew Mark and Luke about a third of Jesus's words are in parables short stories that convey an important truth Jesus was a master storyteller and he would take everyday examples from life to teach people about the kingdom of God examples from work and family culture and even economics and in only a few of those parables does he provide an explanation one of them is the parable of the Sower after the Prodiga...