Parables Week 5: The Growing Seed

Parables Week 5: The Growing Seed

There comes a point in biology where I just frankly do not understand how seeds grow. Throughout high school and even college, I enjoyed the sciences, specifically biology. While not my favorite, botany (the study of plants) remained a subject in which I did...
Parables Week 4: The Lamp

Parables Week 4: The Lamp

After the Parable of the Sower, Jesus continued to speak to the people in parables.  He compared the truth to the light of a lamp, explaining that the measure we use to judge others will be used for us. We often take for granted the concept of electricity.  The simple...
Parables Week 3: The Sower

Parables Week 3: The Sower

For a largely agrarian society, a message of sowing and reaping seed would be immediately understood.  As Jesus taught the people while he stood on the lake, he spoke to them the profound mysteries of an eternal and brilliant Kingdom.  Yet he did so with the language...