Tag: parables
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Questions for Reflection and Discussion – Luke 15 11-24
We are studying Luke 15:11-24 for Sunday, March 17 – the first part of the story of “the prodigal son.” [Study notes for the text are here.] Here are a few questions that might help us consider what this text means for us: The context for the story is a comment made by “the Pharisees…
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Questions for Reflection and Discussion – Luke 14 7-14
We are studying Luke 14:7-14 for Sunday, March 3 – a text that presents a pair of Jesus’ short discourses about social propriety, which may have implications for our understanding of the reign of God. [Study notes on the text are here.] Here are a few questions we might want to consider as we explore…
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Questions for Reflection and Discussion – Luke 14 15-24
The Uniform Series text for Sunday, July 29 is Luke 14:15-24, “the parable of the great banquet”; here are some questions we might or might not want to consider in class: When the story begins, all we know is that “someone” is giving a big dinner. As the story unfolds, we learn that this “someone”…
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Notes – Luke 14 15-24
The Uniform Series text for Sunday, July 29 is Luke 14:15-24, “the parable of the great banquet.” Here are some notes on that text: FIRST IMPRESSIONS: Who are these “straight men” in Luke? Last week it was “someone” who asked Jesus “Lord, will only a few be saved?” This week, “[o]ne of the dinner guests”…
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Questions for Reflection and Discussion – Luke 13 22-30
Here are a few questions about Luke 13:22-30, the study text for Sunday, July 22, that we may or may not want to consider in class: The text begins with Jesus going through towns and villages on his way to Jerusalem and someone asking him “Lord, will only a few be saved?” (v23) What do…
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Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
If we want to find something, it really helps to know what we are looking for, what it looks like. Every so often I’ll get a call or a text from my daughter – I don’t know if this ever happens to anyone else – that goes something like this: “Can you do me a…
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Questions for Reflection and Discussion – Luke 18 1-8
Here are a few questions on Luke 18:1-8, the text we are studying for Sunday, July 15, that we might or might not want to consider in class: The narrator introduces the parable as being about “the need to pray always and never lose heart.” Does this teaching seem more applicable to some situations than…
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Notes on Luke 18 1-8
Here are reading notes on Luke 18:1-8, “the parable of the unjust judge,” the common text for Sunday, July 15:
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Questions for Reflection and Discussion – Matthew 13 24-33
The Uniform Series Sunday school text for Sunday, June 10 is Matthew 13:24-33. Here are a couple of questions we might want to consider in class:
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Notes on Matthew 13 24-33
The Uniform Series text for Sunday, June 10 is Matthew 13:24-33, which is Jesus’ parables of the “weeds and the wheat” (or, as I learned the title as a child, “the wheat and the tares”), the mustard seed, and the leaven in the flour (or, as I learned it as a child, “the yeast in…
Matters of Interpretation 