The Friend at Midnight

 Jesus’ stories are some of his most well-known teachings. He loved to teach using “parables”: punchy mini-stories that tell the truth, but “tell it slant.” Jesus, to teach us about the God we can’t see, unfolds to us parables from the everyday world we can see; he tells stories about judges and neighbors, widows and sheep and lost coins and lost kids. This fall at FPC, we’ll be listening to Jesus’ parables as he surprises us with the truth about God, ourselves, and the good news of God’s grace.