Matthew 13
The Bible Project on the Parables of Jesus
What is the Kingdom?
Series Intro
Discussion Guides
May 24 – Luke 15:8-10
May 24 – This week we’re between series; we just finished our Matthew 13 series on the parables of the Kingdom, and next week we’ll start a ten-week series on the Sermon on the Mount…
Week 1 – The Weeds
April 19 – This week we’re entering our new sermon series out of Matthew 13 where Jesus describes the Kingdom of God through a series of parables. As we go through the next five weeks…
Week 2 – The Mustard Seed
April 26 – The parables fall into three groupings, which you might be picking up on as you read through this section. The Hidden Treasure and the Pearl of Great Price are an obvious pair with their treasure theme…
Week 3 – The Leaven
May 3 – Last week I mentioned that the six kingdom parables in Matthew 13 come in pairs, and this week we’ll be looking at the Parable of the Leaven, the partner of last week’s Parable of the Mustard Seed. In it Jesus describes the Kingdom like…
Week 4 – The Treasure and The Pearl
May 10 – This week we’ll be looking at a pair of parables, the Parable of the Hidden Treasure and the Parable of the Pearl of Great Price. The parable pairs in Matthew 13 utilize parallelism…
Week 5 – The Net
May 17 – This week concludes our series in Matthew 13 with the Parable of the Net. Considering the past five weeks and all they’ve involved for our CG members, it’s worth our time to recap the biggest things…
Series Resources
Other Resources
January 2023 Downtown CG Leader Gathering
On January 15 we met for the first of our 2023 CG Leader Gatherings. Coming out of the our year centering on Citizenship of Heaven, we talked a little about our new focus for this year, All of God for All of Us. We discussed how beginning this year with a study on the...
Resource on the Trinity
Hey Vintage Leaders, As you know, we’re going to be spending the year exploring All of God for All of Us. We hope that our people will grow in the understanding of how the Triune God (the Trinity) shapes our experience of life, faith, community, and God himself. This...
How do I conduct a membership interview?
Intro A membership interview might sound intimidating or overly formal, but the opposite is true—membership interviews are a low-pressure, informal way for us to welcome new members into our church in a way that best communicates who a Vintage Church member is and...
Deep Dive: “What is lacking in Christ’s afflictions”?
All discussion guides in this series →This Deep Dive goes along with our September 4 discussion guide on Colossians 1:24-29. If you go and read Colossians 1:24-29, verse 24 might not exactly stop you in your tracks, but there’s some serious theology to sort through...
Spring 2022 Downtown CG Leader Gathering
On May 17 we met for the first of our twice-a-year CG Leader Gatherings. Coming out of the past two years, plus having finished Abound last fall, we talked a little about processing what many of our groups have gone through, what's next for Vintage Downtown in 2022...
Revelation Resources
Contents: Intro Outline 5 Interpretive Views Revelation's Repetition The Number Seven + Seven Spirits Intro Below you’ll find some helpful tools and frameworks for reading the book of Revelation together in community. To start out, though, I’d like to set before you...