Matthew 20:1-16 - The Kingdom of Heaven is like...The good news of Jesus in a story
The switch over has begun. This Sunday marked our last passage in Matthew until the first of the year. A few Sunday offs and then a couple Sundays covering advent and then a special sermon for the final Sunday of the year. I am praying that I will be preaching on our new mission and identity statements. It would be a great way to end 2025 and keep moving on this quest to have our church documents reflect who we are and where we are at as a local church family. Matthew 20:1-16 contains a parable that I just love. It could be my favorite and I love how it dovetails with the Parable of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15. This is a Matthew only passage and that makes me wonder why. Matthew being a tax collector and this parable dealing with wages might give us a clue but always leaving the final reason being the inspiration of the Holy Spirit given to him. The parable is also a tremendous picture of the gospel. I know that you can't attr...