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...
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...
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...
From all accounts of scripture, Jesus had just cast out demons from a man with multiple ailments. The man had been blind and unable to speak and had been healed by Jesus miraculously. After all, Jesus is a God who came to heal people and bring them to...
There is power in a good story. Throughout the Gospels Jesus employed parables, or stories, to communicate the complex truths of the nature of God, the Kingdom of Heaven, and what faith looks like expressed in the world. The parables allowed the complex, unfathomable...
