by Samuel Smithson | Nov 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
1. How do you see your faith and with it your discipleship of Jesus? What is important to you? Do you picture it, first and foremost, in terms of duty and service? If not, how else? 2. How would you think others/most people answer the first question? What does faith...
by Samuel Smithson | Nov 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
Last Sunday we explored the very well-known parable of The Pharisee and the Tax Collector. It is certainly one of the most well-recognised of the parables, even if its message is not always the most well understood or, more importantly, taken to heart and acted upon!...
by Samuel Smithson | Nov 6, 2011 | Uncategorized
1. Jesus targets this parable at those who are confident in their own righteousness and who look down on other people. Do you think this problem of self-righteous people is as much a problem today as back then?...
by Samuel Smithson | Nov 6, 2011 | Uncategorized
As he often does in his parables Jesus here again uses extreme scenarios to demonstrate his point. Thus he presents us with two characters who in Jewish eyes at that time – were at polar opposites of the social spectrum. Tax collectors were despised. They worked for...
by Samuel Smithson | Oct 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
Last Sunday we explored the parable of the Rich Fool; Jesus teaching there that preoccupation with the storing up of material wealth, together with the belief that our lives are entirely our own, is ‘foolish’. Yes, that was the word he used, ‘foolish’; a word used...
