The Gospel according to Facebook

My friend Ben S. posted this, it's a really interesting Facebook style depiction of the passion week: http://canter.s437.sureserver.com/fbp/facebookpassion.pdf

Be sure to check that out.

Have a fabulous Easter.

Labels

Being in youth ministry, I read a lot of books and stuff about youth ministry. One of the guys who is a leading guru in the field is Marko Ostreicher, president of Youth Specialties, who wrote the best book I've ever read on the topic (Youth Ministry 3.0). I read Marko's blog. And the other day he posted this video:





I thought y'all might like it. I thought it was pretty good.

Tonight!

Hey guys!

I can hardly wait to see y'all tonight, and to discuss the parable of the Prodigals.

Be sure to check out the passage (Luke 15:11-32) if you get time, especially if you weren't in church yesterday.

And also to be ready to offer some ideas for other parables to study.

You should get journals tonight, assuming we remember them.

In other news, I added some links to the right hand side, and to the top bar of the website. There's even a Daily Devotion at a good reformed website run by Covenant Theological Seminary, and some other cool stuff. Check that out.

See y'all soon!
-R.T.

P.S. Be praying for Anna, she had a doctor's appointment today about her heart rate being high and the related problems she's been having.

List of Parables

I mentioned in the last post that you could look up a list of parables online. I found an exhaustive (I think it is, anyway) list, from the International Bible Society. IBS List of Jesus' Miracles.

Up at the top you can choose which version you want it to look them up in. Of the ones listed, and for the sake of just reading (not in-depth Bible study), I prefer the NLT.

See y'all Sunday, if not before!

-R.T.

PS: look up my facebook and my twitter!

Here's the list:

Parables of Jesus > Biblical Order	New Living Translation NLT
Light Under a Bowl	Matthew 5:14-16 Mark 4:21-25 Luke 8:16-18 Luke 11:33-36
New Cloth	Matthew 9:16 Mark 2:21 Luke 5:36
New Wine, Old Wineskins	Matthew 9:17 Mark 2:22 Luke 5:37-39
Mustard Seed	Matthew 13:31-32 Mark 4:30-32 Luke 13:18-19
Pearl of Great Price	Matthew 13:45-46
Sower	Matthew 13:1-13 Mark 4:3-20 Luke 8:4-15
Weeds	Matthew 13:24-30 Matthew 13:36-43
Yeast	Matthew 13:33 Luke 13:20-21
Lost Sheep	Matthew 18:10-14 Luke 15:3-7
Unmerciful Servant	Matthew 18:21-36
Workers in the Vineyard	Matthew 20:1-16
Two Sons	Matthew 21:28-32
Vineyard and the Tenants	Matthew 21:33-46 Mark 12:1-12 Luke 20:9-19
Wedding Banquet	Matthew 22:1-14
Fig Tree	Matthew 24:32-35 Mark 13:28-31 Luke 21:29-33
Talents	Matthew 25:14-30
Growing Seed	Mark 4:26-29
Household Watching	Mark 13:32-37
Debtors	Luke 7:36-50
Good Samaritan	Luke 10:25-37
Faithful Steward	Luke 12:42-48
Rich Fool	Luke 12:16-21
Watchful Servants	Luke 12:35-40
Fig Tree (Barren)	Luke 13:6-9
Cost of Being a Disciple	Luke 14:25-33
Great Banquet	Luke 14:15-24
Lost Coin	Luke 15:8-10
Rich Man and Lazarus	Luke 16:19-31
Shrewd Manager	Luke 16:1-13
Master and Servant	Luke 17:7-10
Pharisee and the Tax Collector	Luke 18:9-10
Widow	Luke 18:1-8
Ten Minas	Luke 19:11-27

Squircle

I was listening to one of my favorite tech podcasts this week and the episode was called "Stop Saying Squircle!" I guess we're not the only ones who know that imaginary geometric shape. Check out Wikipedia's description of a squircle.