Christianity retold
The Tiny Speck and the Giant Tree is an adaptation of Matthew 7.1-5
Don’t find fault in others and your own faults won’t be brought up. For in the same way that you search out stuff to be offended by, offensive stuff will be found in you. Trawl through everything someone ever did, everything you ever did gets checked out too.
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Growing from Seeds is based on Mark 4: 26-34
These are two agricultural parables, one about a field crop and the other a garden plant. Both crops still grow in the UK – so the question would be, if these parables were being told for the first time in the modern UK, would these plants be familiar to the people hearing them?
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So, what’s God’s Nation like? Someone scatters some seeds in a window box. Day and night, that seed sprouts and grows; you don’t need to know how it works. Does it all by itself: the stalk, the leaves, the flowers, the little green tomatoes appearing, then growing and ripening. And as soon as they’re red and ripe, that’s when they get picked, because that’s the harvest time.
And again, what’s God’s Nation like? What kind of metaphor could we use to describe it? It’s like a little acorn someone plants in the ground, an acorn small enough for a squirrel to carry. But when that acorn’s planted, it grows to become a huge oak tree, with birds nesting in it and animals sheltering in its shade.
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