Kernel of Wheat (1 of 7)
Series: The Red Letter
Joey Rodgers
John 12:24-34
Two engineers, one from UGA and one from OSU, were beside a flagpole arguing over a topic when a GA Tech student walked by and asked what they were arguing about. The guy from UGA replied, ''We're talking about how best to determine the height of this flagpole and what equation to use.'' The Techster replied, ''That's easy. So he took the pole out of the hole, laid it on the grass, pulled out a tape measure and declared: ''It's 10' 6'' long.'' As the Tech student walked away, the guy from UGA said to the guy from OSU, ''Isn't that just like a guy from Tech. You ask him for height and he gives you length.''
During Jesus' time on earth, he often left the establishment and even his followers scratching their heads over the things He'd say. This is b/c one of his favorite ways to teach was to speak in parables. A parable is a story w/ point - an earthly teaching w/ a spiritual punchline. And sometimes that point wasn't that obvious to the listener.
Today we're beginning a series of some of the most prolific teachings of Jesus found in the parables. I'm entitling this series, The Red Letters b/c everything we're going to consider came directly from the mouth of Jesus - and in most of our Bibles, we find the words of Jesus written in red.
I learned this week that the concept of the red letters was derived by Louis Klopsch in 1899. Klopsch was a young man pursuing a career in journalism who was working as an editor for the Christian Herald. One day while studying Luke, he was taken by Jesus' words in Luke 22:20 - This cup that's poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood. Impressed by the symbolism of blood, Klopsch came up w/ the idea of printing Jesus' words in red - and it took.
This Easter AM, I'd like to begin our study by focusing on the only parable directly related to the death of Christ. In John 12 we find - the Parable of the Kernel of Wheat.
As a means ...
Series: The Red Letter
Joey Rodgers
John 12:24-34
Two engineers, one from UGA and one from OSU, were beside a flagpole arguing over a topic when a GA Tech student walked by and asked what they were arguing about. The guy from UGA replied, ''We're talking about how best to determine the height of this flagpole and what equation to use.'' The Techster replied, ''That's easy. So he took the pole out of the hole, laid it on the grass, pulled out a tape measure and declared: ''It's 10' 6'' long.'' As the Tech student walked away, the guy from UGA said to the guy from OSU, ''Isn't that just like a guy from Tech. You ask him for height and he gives you length.''
During Jesus' time on earth, he often left the establishment and even his followers scratching their heads over the things He'd say. This is b/c one of his favorite ways to teach was to speak in parables. A parable is a story w/ point - an earthly teaching w/ a spiritual punchline. And sometimes that point wasn't that obvious to the listener.
Today we're beginning a series of some of the most prolific teachings of Jesus found in the parables. I'm entitling this series, The Red Letters b/c everything we're going to consider came directly from the mouth of Jesus - and in most of our Bibles, we find the words of Jesus written in red.
I learned this week that the concept of the red letters was derived by Louis Klopsch in 1899. Klopsch was a young man pursuing a career in journalism who was working as an editor for the Christian Herald. One day while studying Luke, he was taken by Jesus' words in Luke 22:20 - This cup that's poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood. Impressed by the symbolism of blood, Klopsch came up w/ the idea of printing Jesus' words in red - and it took.
This Easter AM, I'd like to begin our study by focusing on the only parable directly related to the death of Christ. In John 12 we find - the Parable of the Kernel of Wheat.
As a means ...
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