Kingdom Truths: Parable of the Pharisee
Pastoral Intern Evan Ng
Luke 14:7-11 and Luke 18:9-13
What has the Pixar movie, Cars, have anything to do with these parables?
Don’t let your moments become monuments.
Serve humbly and let others—including God—choose to give you honor as they see fit.
Philippians 2:5-11
Powerful - humbled - humiliated - exalted - glorified
Ecclesiastes 4:7-12
James 5:13-16
God wants us to rely on Him and His plans, not because we already have everything together, but because we don’t.
“It’s not the prayer that saves; it’s the repentance and faith behind the prayer that lays hold of salvation. My concern is that over-emphasizing the prayer has often (though unintentionally) obscured the primary instruments for laying hold of salvation: repentance and faith.”
—J. D. Greer
What is the posture of how you pray? What is the motivation of why you pray?
God, have mercy on me, a sinner. (Luke 14:13b)