God has allocated a finite amount of time, talent, money, and energy to each of us. We can’t do everything, so we have to make choices. Are you making the most of the choices you have?

Remember how you could hardly wait for Christmas was when you were a kid?

But we’re not kids anymore. We’re older, rational, skeptical. We’ve been around the block a few times. Is there any reason why we should be excited at Christmas?

What does your soul thirst for? Most of us could come up with a long list of things that would make us happy.

That’s part of the excitement of Christmas — it taps into that subconscious sense that maybe there is something out there, just waiting to surprise me, just waiting to be unwrapped, something that will quench this thirst in my soul.

In today’s Scripture, Jesus tells us a story about people like us –- thirsty people –- and how they finally found what they were looking for.

Some preach a conservative Jesus; some a liberal Jesus. What’s the truth?

The goal of every Christians is supposed to be to become more like Christ. So if you’re a Christian, and you were to see that Jesus was more liberal or conservative than you, would you be willing to change?

Why am I here? What is the purpose of my life?

There is within every human a deep desire — instinctive and powerful — to discover the meaning of reality and then establish harmony, oneness, with that reality. We are, virtually all of us, deeply spiritual beings.

Jesus had a few things to say about that. This sermon examines another of His “Kingdom Parables.”