Well Done or Worthless?

Well Done or Worthless?

Matthew’s gospel tells us one of Jesus’s many intriguing parables, the parable of the talents.  Like many parables, this one makes us think and reflect as the story unfolds in unexpected ways. In the parable (found in Matthew 25:14-30), Jesus tells of a man who...
“They shared everything they had”

“They shared everything they had”

The writer of Acts likes absolutes.  Look at the definitive, all-encompassing, leaving-no-room-for-exceptions declarations in the four sentences below, from chapter 2, vv 32-35: All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their...