Faith
 
 
47"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was thrown into the sea and caught fish of every kind; 48when it was full, they drew it ashore, sat down, and put the good into baskets but threw out the bad. 49So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous 50and throw them into the furnace of fire, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
                                                                                    Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52
Parable of the Net
SLAVUJAC, Darlene
2005
"Parable of the Net"
God will gather the good and dispose of the evil
Copyright 2005 Slavujac
http://www.biblicalartist.net/originaloils.html
 
 
 
 
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God
whose ways you may not understand at the time.
                                                                ~ Oswald Chambers
 
 
 

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal
and then leap in the dark to our success.
                                                                ~ Henry David Thoreau
 

 

 
 
 
The birdhouse occupants on my patio are feeding their young.
 
 
After our walk around the lake on Saturday morning, we went
to breakfast at the Country Road Cafe to celebrate my upcoming birthday!
I THANK YOU KINDLY!!!
Sharron
 
Rebecca had this snack since she had already had breakfast.
 
Eileen
 
I certainly could NOT eat it all!!!
 
 
 
To be clever enough to get a great deal of money,
one must be stupid enough to want it.
                                                                ~ G.K. Chesterton
 
 
 
 
July 27, 2008    Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
 
Previous OPQs may be found at:      
 
 
 
Jesus tells five short parables of the kingdom of heaven (mustard seed, yeast, the hidden treasure, the superlative pearl, the net) and describes the work of a scribe trained for the kingdom.
 
Barbara Brown Taylor states:
Why else would he talk about heaven in terms of farmers and fields and women baking bread and merchants buying and selling things and fisherman sorting fish, unless he meant somehow to be telling us that the kingdom of heaven has to do with these things, that our treasure is buried not in some exotic far off place that requires a special map but that “X” marks the spot right here, right now, in all the ordinary people and places and activities in our lives."


 

44"The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which someone found and hid; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.  45"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls; 46on finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had and bought it.
                                       Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52
Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org
 
 
 
 
Genesis 29:15-28
Psalm 105:1-11, 45b or Psalm 128:1-6
Romans 8:26-39
Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52