This Parable Confuses Me the Most

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🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

How do we make sense of parables that seem confusing at first? What does Jesus mean when He says to “make friends with dishonest wealth”? Gomer unpacks The Parable of the Dishonest Steward and shows why it’s essential to consider the context - the time, place, and people - when we try to understand the deeper meaning of Christ’s parables.

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by Ascension.
0:02.9	To discover even more free Catholic podcasts, videos, and resources, to help you live your faith every day, visit ascensionpress.com.
0:11.4	If you're a disciple of Jesus Christ, do you put heaven first?
0:15.8	Seek first the kingdom of God and all of these shall be added.
0:19.8	If you're not seeking first the kingdom of God,
0:22.5	you become lost in the daily distractions of today.
0:43.3	Welcome to Every Knee shall bow, your weekly Catholic podcast and evangelization and discipleship.
0:48.2	My name is Mike Gomer Gormley, and I am not joined today by Dave Van Vickle. I know, I know every time we get an email, oh, Dave, it's so happy to have you back.
0:53.4	Gormley was terrible without you.
0:55.1	Look, I get it. I get it. I don't even like me. But today, when Dave's gone, that means I have
1:01.7	more time to explain all the things that I love about the parables. Today, we're going to cover
1:08.2	the parable of the dishonest steward. This is what we just
1:11.7	had in Sunday's reading last week. So September, what was that? The 21st. I love this. When I sat down at
1:18.2	mass, like we don't plan this stuff out. You know, it's like the line from the Joker in the dark night.
1:23.7	Do I look like someone who has a plan? Right. We don't plan these things out and these beautiful, happy coincidences come up and we love them. So Sunday, sitting there and it's the parable the dishonest through. And I can tell you, of all the parables I have studied, this one confuses me the most. And so I had planned to talk about this one with Dave. We were going to record two episodes so we could have a little buffer.
1:45.1	Today is Tuesday.
1:46.0	This episode is going to come out Wednesday.
1:48.0	And we want to have like a weak buffer so the Ascension Press, wonderful folks can
1:52.6	edit and all that good stuff.
1:54.3	But because like our crazy schedules and sickness, well, Dave today woke up.
1:58.6	We were planning two episodes back to back.
2:02.5	Dave woke up with the flu,
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