Matthew 25: 13-40 Dear Partner in Preaching, I will say at the outset that I don’t think I have much new to say about this parable that falls near the end of the church year and near the close of Matthew’s record of our Lord’s earthly ministry, though I did hear it in slightly a new way relative to these last few weeks. So here we go…. While often lifted up as a good stewardship text – whether of money, time, or (most predictably) talents – this parable, I believe, has been read and preached in way that seems more fitting to one of Aesop’s fables than one of Jesus’ kingdom parables. So rather than offer the “moral...