Summary Continuing the summer series on the parables of Jesus, Alf Dyck taught from Matthew 21:28-32, the story of a father who asks two sons to go work in his vineyard. The first son says no but later changes his mind and goes; the second says yes but never goes. Jesus told this story to […]

Summary Alf Dyck continues The River’s summer series on the parables of Jesus with the parable of the mustard seed, drawn from Mark 4:30-32. He works the parable two ways: as a picture of how the kingdom of God grows from humble, unimpressive beginnings into something enormous, and as Jesus’ own image for faith itself, […]

Summary Alf Dyck opens The River’s new series on the parables of Jesus with the parable of the growing seed from Mark 4:26-29, where a farmer scatters seed and it grows while he sleeps, without him understanding how. Alf unpacks the parable’s picture of the kingdom of God: we are the farmers, the seed is […]