The Parable of the Talents

The Parable of the Talents
Matthew 25.14-30

As I write this, all over this country there are students – including one of my own children – who are taking examinations. In some cases these are not particularly serious. They will merely give the teachers and pupils a sense of how much work has been done, what has been learned and what has been forgotten, and where the work of the next school year needs to begin. But for others this is a life-changing moment. Everything they have done for the last year or two is being assessed, and the results will determine the course of the rest of their lives: what sort of job they will get, where they will live, and a thousand other things large and small...

Taken from Matthew for Everyone – by Tom Wright