Faith
The search for meaning, purpose, and relationship. Our need for love compels us to seek it out, and when we find it, share it.
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The parable is dark and disturbing. It doesn’t play out as we expect. And we’re not sure what it is supposed to mean. But maybe we should.
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There’s something about parables we just get. They connect with us better than any other teaching. And they have far more depth.
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For two straight weeks, Jesus throws out parables that challenge the Temple leaders by questioning what they value and why.
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The parable of the wicked tenants challenges us to see in it more than the Passion, but of the actions we treat as inevitable.
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With a parable of wickedness, our minds turn to their own kind of wickedness, not redemption, or goodness. But they could.
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Rejection is a prime example of something we hate experience and seem to love doing to others. Even when we don’t want to.