Matthew 20

Jesus doesn’t seem interested in our warped ways of keeping the ledger of life.

She’s helping me answer the question, “Why this life instead of another?”

As a culture, we don’t have much patience for the last.

It's a pithy proverb, but it doesn't capture Jesus' story.

The work of advancing the kingdom doesn't translate into fair compensation as we understand it.

What if the agreed daily wage is forgiveness and eternal life?

Who is this leader who issues this warning? Do we even begin to believe that he's the Christ?

As someone who is “first” in this world, am I in trouble with God?

Can’t the landowner see how unfair this is?

When I was a kid growing up in the Willamette Valley, local teenagers and migrant laborers would go out together into the strawberry fields to help with the harvest. This parable, with its setting in the vineyard, describes the emotions of us workers—we wanted a fair wage for a fair day’s work.