Read: Matthew 25:19 | When I was a teenager and the oldest of three siblings, I was eventually trusted to be the baby sitter. I felt large and in charge. And of course, I lorded it over my siblings. When my parents left me in charge, they would tell us that they expected all of […]
Read: Matthew 25:14-18 | The French author Jules Renard once wrote, “Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.” The Bible also has much to say about laziness and sloth. Proverbs is ripe with references which elicit the reader to blossom into the action of an ant versus withdraw like […]
Read: Matthew 25:14-17 | In 1858, a Sunday school teacher named Mr. Kimball, led a Boston shoe clerk to give his life to Christ. The clerk, Dwight L. Moody, became an evangelist and publisher. In England in 1879, Mr. Moody awakened evangelistic zeal in the heart of Fredrick B. Meyer, pastor of a small church. […]
Read: Matthew 25:14-17 | What is the value of five talents? The answers vary. According to New Nave’s Topical Bible, possessing five talents of gold or silver was equivalent to being a multimillionaire by today’s standards. Other scholars calculate one talent to be equivalent to 20 years of wages for the common worker. Conservative scholars […]
Read: Matthew 25:14-17 | Tradition has it that Michelangelo was teaching some art students one day. He walked over to one of his students and started painting on their canvas. He then handed the student the brush.The awestruck student asked: “How can I finish what you have started?” Michelangelo challenged him by saying, “Let this […]
