Matthew 25:14-30, It's Not What You've Always Been Told (Parables #9)

NOTE: In this episode, Pastor Kelsey references Journeying with Jesus, a blog of essays by Debbie Thomas. The specific essay referenced is called The Good Kind of Worthless.

The next several Mondays of the #ladypreacherpodcast will be focused on parables! These little short stories by Jesus share some pretty big truths.  This week we are diving into Matthew 25:14-30.

There are 55 parables in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke (though many of those repeat each other), but we will be studying 10 of them. Each one reveals to us something about who we are, who God is, what God’s Kin-dom is like, and who we are called to be as a part of that kin-dom.

Every week, we’ll dive into a different parable, and listen for how God is speaking to us through the text. Jesus spoke through parables so that he could put heaven’s truths into a modern context. They were stories his listeners could relate to and understand. So when we look at them in our modern context, we have to do some translating so we can understand what they would have meant to those hearing them in the 1st century. Hopefully, along the way, we’ll see where God is at work in our world here and now, and how we can be a part of that work.