The Parable of the Wicked Tenants; Matthew 21:33-43 (…continued) Knowing what we know about renting and owning, what can we say about that? First of all we might want to ask, “What on earth could they have be thinking?” Were those tenants insane? Is that how it works: if you kill […]
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(Jesus said), “Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a wine-press in it and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and went on a journey. When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants
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By Tim Challies, November 9, 2015 article at: www.challies.com How do you know that you really get the gospel, that you really understand and believe it? Or perhaps better said, how do you know that the gospel has really gotten you, that it has taken hold of you and begun to permanently transform
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From The Clergy of America: Anecdotes, 1869, pages 169-170 A sermon illustration from a New England minister in the 1700’s. ————————– A clergyman sitting in his study, saw some boys in his garden stealing melons. He quietly arose, and walking into his garden, called out to them, “Boys, boys.” They immediately fled
By Lutheran pastor David G. Johnson in The Road Once Traveled, 1991, pages 67-71 The three of us, Bob, John, and I, were so intent on following a turkey that we neglected to pay much attention to where we were going. The car was not far away and we thought we knew the
Image above: Quasimodo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, from the 1939 movie, based on the 1831 classic by Victor Hugo. ————————— By Fred Craddock, Craddock Stories, ed. by Mike graves and Richard F. Ward, Chalice Press, 2001, pages 49-50. I was in a distant city, and the seminar in which I was involved ended
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“Amazing Grace Sung by Believers from 50 Different Countries, United by Jesus,” posted June 5, 2020 at: http://www.epm.org , by Randy Alcorn. Pastor and author Randy Alcorn is the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries and the author of more than 50 books. For more on this subject, see Randy’s devotional Grace: A Bigger View
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By Joshua Rogers, from his blog “Finding God in the Ordinary,” February 2, 2020 at: http://www.joshuarogers.com ——————————————— It was early in the morning in Washington, D.C., and I was driving down Montana Avenue about ten minutes from home. But suddenly, the blue lights of a police cruiser zoomed into the reflection of my
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“We All Need Help” by John Piper Hebrews 4:16 — Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Every one of us needs help. We are not God. We have needs. We have weaknesses. We
Above: Dallas courthouse, October 2, 2019 *************************** By Joshua Rogers, posted October 5, 2019 at: http://www.joshuarogers.com On the night of February 7, 2003, Coco and David Treppendahl got the news that no parent ever wants to hear: their 19-year-old daughter, Laura Treppendahl, had been killed by a drunk driver as she drove home
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