This week BibleWorm reads Matthew 20:1–16, often called the Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard, in which the kingdom of heaven is said to be like a landowner who pays the laborers a full day’s wage no matter how long they’ve worked. We wrestle with the abject unfairness of this wage system and empathize with the workers who have labored a long day in the hot sun. Yet we also marvel at the generosity of the vineyard owner, who gives everyone what they need for the day no matter how much work they’ve done. Maybe, we think, in the kingdom of heaven people are not rewarded for the labor they provide but rather receive what they need to live a full and abundant life. If we read ourselves as the landowners, this becomes a lesson on how we should conduct our own economic practices, not only paying fair wages but giving generously until everyone has enough. And if we read God as the landowner, then this becomes a parable about God’s radical and endless generosity that welcomes more and more people into the kingdom and treats us all as people of dignity and worth.
Episode 502 Laughing at the Promise (Genesis 18:1-15 and 21:1-7)
Episode 501 Created for Relationship (Genesis 2:4b-25)
Episode 457 ECONOMIC JUSTICE The Poor Will Always Be with You (John 12:1-8) REPLAY
Episode 456 ECONOMIC JUSTICE The Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:7-15) REPLAY
Episode 455 ECONOMIC JUSTICE The Eye of the Needle (Luke 4:16-21 and 18:18-30) REPLAY
Episode 454 ECONOMIC JUSTICE What Does the Lord Require of You? (Micah 6:6-15 and 7:1-7) REPLAY
Episode 453 ECONOMIC JUSTICE Economics and Holiness (Leviticus 19:9-18 and 33-37) REPLAY
Episode 452 ECONOMIC JUSTICE Biblical Faith and Debt Forgiveness (Deuteronomy 15:1-11 and 24:10-15) REPLAY
Episode 451 SUMMER SERIES Bathsheba (1Kings 1:1--40) REPLAY
Episode 450 SUMMER SERIES Rahab (Joshua 2:1-24 and 6:2-4) REPLAY
Episode 449 SUMMER SERIES The Daughters of Zelophehad (Numbers 27:1-11 and 36:1-12)
Episode 448 SUMMER SERIES Miriam (Exodus 2:1-10 and Numbers 12:1-16)
Episode 447 SUMMER SERIES Tamar (Genesis 38:1-26) REPLAY
Episode 446 SUMMER SERIES Sarah and Hagar (Genesis 16:1-16 and 21:8-21)
Episode 445 Longing for Redemption (Acts 2:1-4 and Romans 8:14-39)
Episode 444 Baptized into Death (Romans 6:1-14)
Episode 443 Justified by Faith (Romans 3:28-30 and 5:1-11)
Episode 442 From Faith for Faith (Romans 1:1-17)
Episode 441 Paul and Barnabas in Lystra (Acts 13:1-3 and 14:8-18)
Episode 440 Peter and Cornelius (Acts 10:1-17 and 34-48)
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