Aug 12, 2012

Jesus used earth-bound word pictures to ignite the soul's imagination for the heaven-bound kingdom He had come to bring.  

It's like... He said... a "mustard seed" - the smallest thing you can imagine - that becomes greater than you ever dreamed... within you - and within the world, through you!

[The Gospel of Mark |...

Aug 5, 2012

Jesus used earth-bound word pictures to ignite the soul's imagination for the heaven-bound kingdom He had come to bring.  

It's like... He said... a "process" that begins with scattered seed that gives birth to life, breaks through to become visible, produces fruit, and reproduces more seeds for scattering ... on and...

Jul 29, 2012

Jesus used earth-bound word pictures to ignite the soul's imagination for the heaven-bound kingdom He had come to bring.  

It's like... He said... a "lamp" that enters a dark room seeking to be given a place of prominance so it can shine it's instructing, directing, revealing light on everything. 

[The Gospel of Mark |...

Jul 22, 2012

Jesus used earth-bound word pictures to ignite the soul's imagination for the heaven-bound kingdom He had come to bring.  

It's like... He said... a "seed" scattered across the earth in search of "good soil" where it can get in, take root, grow, produce, and reproduce itself.

[The Gospel of Mark | s04.e02 | Mark...

Jul 15, 2012

Jesus came to earth with a message: "The Kingdom of God has come near!"  But how do you explain an advancing, God-led, spiritual kingdom to a people who cannot see anything beyond the decaying, man-led, earthly kingdoms they're oppressed by?  Jesus used parables, earth-bound word pictures to ignite the soul for a...