You're listening to Knowing Faith, a podcast of Training the Church. This is Kyle Worley and I'm joined by my co-host Jen Wilkin and J.T. English today.

And on today's episode, we're going to be discussing the parables in Matthew.

So kind of looking at the parables in general as a genre of literature, but then

we're going to be looking at the parables in Matthew, specifically Matthew 13, just to kind of

test out some ways of reading the parables and our awareness and literacy around the

parables and you might think listen I'm really interested in this and I want

some helpful resources maybe to listen to after the show you can find the first semester of our Matthew Bible

class online, both the audio and the guide, on TVC Resources.net and as a church the

village is about to enter into in three or four weeks

enter into a sermon series on the kingdom of God and so as we embark on that you might

find this discussion on the parables to be helpful we We hope that you do and we hope that you enjoy the discussion. Okay, J.T. what's your problem?

My problem is, and this is not a joke, you have toothpaste on your sweatshirt again.

I swear to anybody who's listening to me, Kyle has toothpaste on the sweatshirt.

It's moving from being funny to being alarming. Do you have like a salivary problem?

Is it a glandular misfunction?

I'm alarmed that more people don't have tooth based on their shirts because I think

listen the tooth based on my shirt is an indicator of like hey you know what this

dude did he brushed his teeth this morning no but what he's not going to tell

you right now is he tried to lie about it the first time it came up and he's not going to tell you right now is he tried to lie about it

the first time it came up and he's like it's yogurt from my daughter's breakfast I was like you

know that's not yogurt. It's yogurt.

It's yogurt.

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