“Whenever a parable seems this clear, this obvious, this straightforward, it most definitely is not,” says Rev. Mandy England Cole, in regard to the parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector from Luke 18:9-14....

Jim Somerville, pastor of Richmond’s First Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia, and co-founder of A Sermon for Every Sunday, preaches a sermon called “The Acts of an Easter People,” based on Saul’s conversion story in...