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 351The Poor Will Always Be with You (John 12:1-8)
Episode 350 The Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:7-15)
Episode 349 The Eye of the Needle (Luke 4:16-21 and 18:18-30)
Episode 348 What Does the Lord Require of You? (Micah 6:6-15 and 7:1-7)
Episode 347 Economics and Holiness (Leviticus 19:9-18 and 33-37)
Episode 346 Biblical Faith and Debt Forgiveness (Deuteronomy 15:1-11 and 24:10-15)
Episode 345 Pentecost (Acts 2:1-21 and Philippians 4:4-7)
Episode 344 Living the Christ Hymn (Philippians 2:1-13)
Episode 343 May Your Love Overflow (Philippians 1:1-18a)
Episode 342 Paul in Athens (Acts 17:16-34)
Episode 341 Of Jailers and Slave Girls (Acts 16:16-40)
Episode 340 The Conversions of Paul and Ananias (Acts 9:1-19a)
Episode 339 Jesus Appears to Thomas (John 20:19-31)
Episode 338 Come to the Tomb (John 20:1-18)
Episode 337 Good Friday SPECIAL EPISODE (John 19:23-42)
Episode 336 The Executed King (John 12:12-19 and 19:16b-22)
Episode 335 The Trial Before Pilate (John 19:1-16a)
Episode 334 What is Truth? (John 18:28-40)
Episode 333 Peter’s Denial (John 18:12-27)
Episode 332 Jesus Washes the Disciples’ Feet (John 13:1-17)
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