This week BibleWorm reads Matthew 13:24-43, Jesus’s parables of the kingdom. We talk about how to read parables and why we think Jesus uses parables to declare what has been hidden since the beginning of the world. And we discuss three of Jesus parables, which compare the kingdom of heaven to a field of wheat overplanted with weeds, to yeast leavening bread, and to a mustard seed that grows into a nice shrub where the birds can make a nest. In what way is the kingdom of heaven like these things? We talk about the gleaners in the field who throw the weeds into the furnace and we wrestle with the role of fear in Jesus’s description of the kingdom. But mostly we notice that these parables are about bringing life—to the wheat, to the birds, to the bread—and even to the weeds themselves. Maybe the kingdom of heaven is found in nurturing life in everyone we meet.
Episode 203 The Complexities of Being Family (Genesis 37 and 50)
Episode 202 Anxiety and Promise (Genesis 15:1-6)
Episode 202 (EXTENDED) Anxiety and Promise (Genesis 15:1-6)
Episode 201 (EXTENDED)The Angst of Being Human (Genesis 2:4b-7, 15-17; 3:1-10)
Episode 201 The Angst of Being Human (Genesis 2:4b-7, 15-17; 3:1-10)
Episode 152 Esther 3:1-11 and 7:1-10 Resisting Ethnic Nationalism
Episode 151 Esther 1:1-22 Resisting the Patriarchy
Episode 150 Ruth 1:14-18 and 3:1-15 Reading Ruth Against the Grain
Episode 149 Ruth 2:1-20 and 4:9-17 Making Ancient Israel Great Again
Episode 148 Song of Songs 5:2-9 and 8:5-10 Solidarity and Allegory
Episode 147 Song of Songs 1:12-2:6 and 7:1-13 The Joy of Sex
Episode 146 Lamentations 3 and 5 Trauma Has Many Voices
Episode 145 Lamentations 1:18-22 and 2:10-22 Trauma and Protest
Episode 144 Ecclesiastes 1:4-11 and 3:1-11 For Everything There is a Time
Episode 143 Ecclesiastes 1:1-3 and 8:16-9:10 Everything is Mere Breath
Episode 142 Acts 2 and 1 Corinthians 12 Pentecost and the Body of Christ
Episode 141 1 Corinthians 15 Paul and the Resurrection of the Body
Episode 140 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 The Greatest of These is Love
Episode 139 Acts 18:1-4 and 1 Corinthians 1:10-18 Unity in the Body
Episode 138 Acts 17:1-9 and 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 Paul in Thessalonica
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