Monthly Archive: July 2023

Read­ing Time: 3 minutesThe par­able of the hid­den treas­ure By defin­i­tion, a treas­ure should be any­thing and/or any per­son you so much value and that is very dear and spe­cial to you. The Greek term for treasure…

Read­ing Time: 3 minutesIntro­duc­tion   The Gos­pel accord­ing to Mat­thew chapter thir­teen (13), con­tains series of par­ables gen­er­ally grouped as “king­dom par­ables” because of the way they are intro­duced: “the king­dom of heav­en is like….”  The par­able of…

Read­ing Time: 3 minutesIntro­duc­tion   Gran­ted today, the use of par­ables in daily speeches is gradu­ally dimin­ish­ing, how­ever, every cul­ture and espe­cially the eld­erly men and women under­stand the import­ance of par­ables in speeches and con­ver­sa­tions. In…

Read­ing Time: 3 minutesIntro­duc­tion    Hav­ing sent the dis­ciples on mis­sion and hav­ing exhausted the theme and the neces­sity of hos­pit­al­ity, Jesus can now take up oth­er teach­ings. Isai­ah was not wrong when he affirmed that we…

Read­ing Time: 2 minutesIntro­duc­tion I can’t get no sat­is­fac­tion; I can’t get no sat­is­fac­tion…. This line is taken from the heat album of the Rolling Stones. Des­pite their pop­ular­ity and wealth, the group laments they can­not get…