This past weekend at Eastbrook, I continued our series, "Stories of the Kingdom: Parables of Jesus," by looking at the parable of the wheat and the weeds in Matthew 13:24-30 and Jesus' explanation of it in Matthew 13:36-43. You can find the message video and outline below. You can also view the entire series here. …
The Sower and the Soils
This past weekend at Eastbrook, I continued our series, "Stories of the Kingdom: Parables of Jesus," by looking at the parable of the sower and the soils in Matthew 13:3-9 and Jesus' explanation of it in Matthew 13:18-23. This was also our annual Eastbrook Outdoors service. You can find the message video and outline below. …
The Sent Son
This weekend at Eastbrook Church, as we continued the "Crossroads" series, I preached a message entitled "The Sent Son." This message builds upon the previous weeks of the series (see "Lord of the Sabbath" and "The New Temple") by exploring Jesus' parable in Luke 20:1-19. This parable is sometimes known as the parable of the wicked tenants and at …
Christ Speaks in Stories
This from Christian Wiman in his moving book My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer. Christ speaks in stories as a way of preparing his followers to stake their lives on a story, because existence is not a puzzle to be solved, but a narrative to be inherited and undergone and transformed person by person. …
The Tale of Two Sons
Yesterday at Brooklife, I concluded the Storyteller series with a sermon on Luke 15 called "The Tale of Two Sons." Luke 15 contains three parables by Jesus, the last of which is commonly called the parable of the prodigal son. My sermon focused on this parable, but I strongly believe that it should really be …
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