New Series: Stories Jesus Told

Every person is living inside a story. We carry assumptions about who deserves grace, what success looks like, and whether God is paying attention to our lives at all. Those assumptions feel reasonable until Jesus starts talking.

Jesus didn't explain the kingdom with bullet points. He told stories. Stories about lost things and lavish fathers, about widows who wouldn't quit and religious men who didn't see themselves clearly. And every parable in Luke does the same thing: it finds you where you are, exposes what you actually believe, and calls you to make a decision.

The parables are not comfortable. They disrupt self-righteousness, confront the way we sort people into worthy and unworthy, and invite ordinary people into something far bigger than their own story. But they are also full of hope, because the God at the center of every one of these stories is not waiting for people to get it together. He is the shepherd leaving the ninety-nine. He is the father running down the road.

Over seven weeks, we will walk through the parables of Luke together, reading them slowly and honestly. The goal is not simply to understand what Jesus said, but to let these stories do what they were always meant to do: reshape how we see God, how we see others, and how we live.

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