His talent was taken and given to the one with ten talents, and he himself was thrown out of his master’s presence (Matthew 25:30). What Does the Parable of the Talents Mean? The master of this parable is clearly meant to represent Jesus. The servants are Christ-followers. Similar to...
Complete Jewish Bible 4 What I am saying is that as long as the heir is a minor he is no different from a slave, even though he is the legal owner of the estate; 2 rather, he is subject to guardians and caretakers until the time previously set by his father. 3 So it is with ...
Floortime required caretakers of a child to get down on the floor on the same level as the child and to try to see the child’s point of view, while gently enticing the child to join the caretaker in as many circles of communication as the child was able. Instead of coercing behaviors...
“…Who knows if perhaps you were made queen for just such a time as this?” Esther 4:14 When I read at LEAST 4 different translations of the Bible those 5 words never changed. Such a Time as This. We all have different times in our lives. I would like to hone in on our own ...
pony would chirp. the dog reminded him which of his daughters or in-person caretakers would be visiting that day to do the tasks that an onscreen dog couldn’t: prepare meals, change jim’s sheets, drive him to a senior center. “we’ll wait together,” pony would say. often she’d...
But this does not mean that we need to tiptoe around the subject of grief itself. Grieving people already feel like they're wearing the scarlet letter 'G' (as in griever). Whether or not others know about their loss, they know they're walking around with a hidden dimension that can ...
“…Who knows if perhaps you were made queen for just such a time as this?” Esther 4:14 When I read at LEAST 4 different translations of the Bible those 5 words never changed. Such a Time as This. We all have different times in our lives. I would like to hone in on our own ...
The communities are in solid agreement as to the four foundational theological books: the Bible (the Old Testament), the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price. However, they profoundly disagree with the Church of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) in its rejection ...
I love the church, and so does Jesus. There is much that is wonderful about it, too much to say here. But I also understand firsthand why many people’s experiences of religious institutions have repelled them rather than drawn them to Jesus. If that’s you, perhaps what you ...
Sweetness openly condemns the segregation her parents suffered even in church, where they had to use the bible "reserved for Negroes" ([1], p. 4) or the housing discrimination that made it challenging for her to find an apartment for Lula Ann and herself ([1], p. 6), but she fails...