A while ago I had given my former boss, Ralph, a copy of Scupoli’s “Unseen Warfare,” a devotional classic of the Christian Orthodox world. He and I were talking about ...

In Matthew 13, Jesus taught the parable of the wheat and the tares. Tares are weeds that resemble wheat. ... Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.

Jesus, of course, explains the parable of the wheat and tares to his Apostles. As we saw, the wheat is God’s good seed; the weeds are the devil’s work. God lets them co-exist, but not ...

Jesus cares. He says, “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me ...

Last Sunday, we discussed the Parable of the Sower on Matt. 13:1-23, one of the few parables that our Lord Jesus Christ himself gives and then explains to his disciples what it really meant. Today ...

Chad Loucks, the church’s director of Youth Ministry and a Fuller School of Theology student, speaks on the parable of the tares and wheat (Matthew 13:24-30; 36-43).

The sower originally was Jesus, who came teaching the word of God (the seed) and seeking a harvest. Today, anyone who shares God’s word with others is sowing the seed. Like seed, God’s word is “living ...

16th Sunday in Ordinary Time: The Parable of the Wheat and Tares SCRIPTURES & ART: God lets the wheat and tares co-exist, but not indefinitely. There is a moment of judging and separating.

Today’s gospel is about another parable. Last Sunday we had the Parable of the Sower and for this Sunday, it is the Parable of the Weeds among the Wheat, which you can read in Matt. 13:24-43.