This week BibleWorm reads Matthew 13:24-43, Jesus’s parables of the kingdom. We talk about how to read parables and why we think Jesus uses parables to declare what has been hidden since the beginning of the world. And we discuss three of Jesus parables, which compare the kingdom of heaven to a field of wheat overplanted with weeds, to yeast leavening bread, and to a mustard seed that grows into a nice shrub where the birds can make a nest. In what way is the kingdom of heaven like these things? We talk about the gleaners in the field who throw the weeds into the furnace and we wrestle with the role of fear in Jesus’s description of the kingdom. But mostly we notice that these parables are about bringing life—to the wheat, to the birds, to the bread—and even to the weeds themselves. Maybe the kingdom of heaven is found in nurturing life in everyone we meet.
Episode 135 Mark 16:1-8 The Markan Easter Story
Episode 134 Mark 15:16-41 Good Friday BONUS EPISODE
Episode 133 Mark 11:1-21 and 14:1-9 The Triumphal Entry and a Woman's Gift
Episode 132 Mark 13:1-37 The End of the World as We Know It
Episode 131 Mark 12:28-44 The Greatest Commandment and the Widow's Offering
Episode 130 Mark 12:1-17 The Parable of the Tenants and the Question of Taxes
Episode 129: Mark 10:32-52 Blind Bartimaeus
Episode 128 Mark 10:17-31 The Eye of the Needle
Episode 127: Mark 9:30-37 Who is the Greatest?
Episode 126: Mark 8:22-9:8 The Mount of Transfiguration
Episode 125 Mark 7:1-23 Controversy over Handwashing
Episode 124 Mark 6:1-29 Jesus Sends Out the Twelve
Episode 123 Mark 5:21-43 Jesus Heals Two Women
Episode 122 Mark 5:1-20 Jesus Heals a Man Possessed by Unclean Spirits
Episode 121 Mark 4:1-34 Parables of the Kingdom
Episode 120 Mark 2:1-22 Community and Conflict
Episode 119 Mark 1:21-45 The Beginning of Jesus's Ministry
Episode 118 Mark 1:1-20 Baptism and Call
Episode 117 Luke 2 Christmas Eve SPECIAL EPISODE
Episode 116 Luke 1 The Birth of John the Baptist
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