"You Reap What You Sow?" - Matthew 25:14-30 - (November 19, 2023 - Pentecost 25)

Grace Alone Online

Pause for a moment and think about a most beloved gift you’ve received. For me, it was a camera. I always played around with my dad’s camera, my mom’s camera, my dad’s Bell and Howell 8mm movie camera – not video. Finally, when I was thirteen, my parents gave me a Honeywell Pentax Spotmatic 500 Single-Lens Reflex with a screw-thread lens mount developed by Zeiss and Praktika corporations during World War II.

Sharing joy is one part of the message in our parable of the Talents this morning. The way Jesus tells this parable, it flows out of the prior parable; the parable of the Ten Virgins. It lets us know we should consider this parable as an extension to the parable of the Ten Virgins.