Apr. 6—Jesus told the Parable of the Lost Sheep in Matthew 18:12-14 and Luke 15:1-7 to show that every person is of singular importance to God and should be seen as having great value no matter what ...

The secret is the value of one little sheep. Jesus came to seek and to save. He paid the price on Calvary for the sin debt of ...

Here, I capture the heartfelt parable of Jesus searching for the lost sheep, bringing it to life on my own farm. This short moment reminds me—and hopefully you—of the value of every individual and the ...

The key theme of this Sunday’s Gospel is the recovery of the repentant sinner. The Gospel itself comes in two versions: a short and a long form. The short form includes only the first two parables in ...

Reading Amy-Jill Levine's Short Stories by Jesus, I kept wishing she had published it earlier. It would have saved me some mistakes in the pulpit. The best storytellers paint pictures with words, ...

Issues of Faith is a rotating column by religious leaders on the North Olympic Peninsula. Don Corson is an Ordained Deacon in the Lutheran Church (ELCA) and the winemaker for a local winery. He is ...