Pay it Forward is a tender movie about a twelve year old boy named Trevor. His seventh grade social studies teacher offered students extra credit if they could come up with a plan to change the world for the better, and put it into action. Trevor, this serious child of a single alcoholic mother, takes on the challenge by doing three people an extraordinary favor and when they try to pay it back, he tells each not to pay it back, but ‘pay it forward.'

Paying it forward is what Jesus' parable of the talents is all about in Matthew's Gospel. Let's study this story together today in search of lasting principles of life. This is a story of a man going on a journey. He summoned his servants and entrusted his property to them. To one he gave five talents, to another two and to another one, each …