The Friday faith-filled family fun blog is a series of weekly
posts with fun activities based around Bible stories. Today's
activities go with the parable of the talents. With Labor Day
approaching, I thought it would be appropriate to have some
family time learning about work and God's perspective on work.
One story came to mind: the parable of the talents, found in the
Bible in Matthew 25:14-30. The story of the parable of the
talents goes something like this; a master goes on a trip and
gives his servants different amounts of money. (The type of
money is called a "talent." ) One servant is given five talents,
one servant receives two talents, and one receives one talent.
Then the servants went to work. Or at least some of them went to
work. The first two servants went to work and doubled their
earnings. The servant with just one talent buried his money in
the ground (not a good idea). When the master returned he
praised the first two servants and entrusted them with more
responsibility. The servant that bu