During these weeks I'm doing studies of four of the kingdom parables of Christ. We began that study with a parable that is fundamental—that parable at the close of the Sermon on the Mount: "Those who ...

"And some fell into good soil and grew, and yielded a hundredfold. As he said this, he called out, ‘He who has ears to hear, let him hear’" (Luke 8:8). This Bible verse is from the Gospel of Luke, one ...

Last week, Jesus spoke of fraternal correction, to admonish the brother who does us wrong to move him to repentance. That is why we correct our brother: not to show our superiority (of which no true ...