The Parables Archive

Today we conclude our summer series on the Parables of Jesus. If the Parable of the Sower is one of the best known parables then today’s parable certainly ranks among the most obscure and least understood.

Luke 15 ends with Jesus teaching a parable about wrong attitudes towards people. Chapter 16 begins with a parable about the wrong attitudes towards material wealth. If we do not master our money by using it for the Kingdom of God then it will master us and we will end up bankrupt for eternity.

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Join us for our morning service where Charlie Hadjiev will be covering 'The Parable Of The Sower'.

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The story of the wheat and the weeds appears among a group of seven (some say eight) parables told by Jesus from a boat to a crowd gathered by the sea of Galilee. It was delivered shortly after heated exchanges between Jesus and a group of pharisees. The pharisees’ encounter with Jesus brought into sharp focus the wicked inclinations of the human heart and the promise of the final exclusion of evil from God’s eternal Kingdom.
The punchline of the parable is that Christ himself will act as the final judge of what is good and what is evil. This will be His job, not ours.

The parable encourages us to reflect on how that fundamental truth might inform the judgements we make about the wider world, our fellow believers, and the state of our own hearts.

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Join us for our morning service where Philip Boyd will be covering 'The Parable Of The Tenants'.

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This parable Jesus told about the wise and foolish builders comes at the end of the section in St Matthew's Gospel known as the Sermon on the Mount. In the parable, Jesus challenges His listeners to apply what they had heard taught rather than let it go in one ear and straight out through the other.

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