Posts tagged with ‘parable’

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Feeling Lost? Help is on the Way

by Steve

Have you ever felt lost? I don’t just mean confused, disappointed, or frustrated, I mean desperately searching for a way when you’ve lost your way. Your heart is racing, there are sleepless nights and you feel you’ve reached a dead end. This way of existing, of course, leads to more stress, which leads to more […]

The Parables: The Generous Landowner

by Steve

Each parable Jesus uses is meant to illuminate some spiritual principle or value unique to the Kingdom of God that we don’t really understand very well by getting us to engage in a story that we do understand and perhaps have even lived. Parables usually begin by saying something like, “The Kingdom of God is […]

Invited: a message on Heaven

by Steve

His Italian mother named him after the gospel writer, Mark in the hopes that he too would tell the gospel truth. It is ironic that, later when he wrote a bestselling book on his world travels, cynics nicknamed it Il Milione: .The Book of a Million Lies.. And Mark, whose mother hoped would grow up […]

Messy Relationships Part 3

by Steve

Regardless of what anyone says, life is messy and we all have messes in our lives. Anyone that tells you otherwise is either in denial and/or a liar. Sometimes the mess is one of our own making through something we did or didn’t do, said or didn’t say. Other times we are thrust into the […]

Messy Spirituality 2: Dealing with Doubts

by Steve

Regardless of what anyone says, life is messy and we all have messes in our lives. Anyone that tells you otherwise is either in denial and/or a liar. Sometimes the mess is one of our own making through something we did or didn’t do, said or didn’t say. Other times we are thrust into the […]

Messy Spirituality 1

by Steve

Regardless of what anyone says, life is messy and we all have messes in our lives. Anyone that tells you otherwise is either in denial and/or a liar. Sometimes the mess is one of our own making through something we did or didn’t do, said or didn’t say. Other times we are thrust into the […]