When we considered the Covenant of Law given through Moses, we detected a major problem that we have with God’s law: we cannot keep it. In light of this fact, in Jeremiah 31:31-34, God announced a New Covenant that would transform our relationship to the law by providing what we all need – complete forgiveness for all our sins.
While the Parable of the Good Samaritan is well known, it is easy to miss its shock value, its subtle surprises, and its connection...
Four short parables point to the surpassing value of the kingdom of God and the need to find it now.
Although we work for the growth of the kingdom, it grows mysteriously in ways that we cannot understand or control.
