I was thinking of a Top Ten Parable list, but for some reason a Top Twelve List seemed right to me.
Scripture
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Calculating the Cost
Disciples must act as brother and sister toward those who are different, whether by physical ability or any other status marker. For some disciples, this new family will cause tension and even rupture in one’s biological family.
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Dr. Laura and Leviticus
A healthy antidote to Scriptural literalism of any sort
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Obedient Faith
Freeing the heart from attachment to anything but God’s love and God’s realm is the next step in obedience.
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Bigger Barns
The Gospel today shows us in parable form what the “greed that is idolatry” looks like.
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A Forgiving and Giving God
The Gospel challenges the idea that God sends suffering to test or challenge or strengthen us and insists that God desires only good for us. We do not have to badger God or bargain with God to give us good things.
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The Kindness of Strangers
Sometimes we need to be helped out of our rationalizations for not doing what our listening heart prompts us to do.
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Coming to Believe
In his final remarks to his disciples on the Sunday after Easter, the risen Jesus differentiates between how Thomas came to believe (because you have seen me) and a more ordinary yet even superior way (Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed).