The Bible tells us in Matthew 13:34, "All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them." When Jesus wanted to get a spiritual truth across to ...

Proper application of the rules or principles of biblical interpretation helps us to explain the Bible without reading our thoughts, innuendos or biases into the ...

Jesus was a master of teaching truths through parables. Jesus’ parables are short stories that teach a moral or spiritual lesson using ordinary everyday experiences, analogy or similar comparisons.

Jesus’ parables – short stories with moral lessons – were likewise designed to afflict, to draw us in but leave us uncomfortable. These teachings can be read as being about divine love and salvation, ...

The importance of the parables can hardly be overestimated. They comprise a substantial part of the recorded preaching of Jesus. The parables are generally regarded by scholars as among the sayings ...

Bearing out what Jesus said, here is a bird perching on a mustard plant that has grown to a great size from a tiny seed, symbolizing the value of faith. (Courtesy Photo) Jesus told the Parables of the ...

The Lord is like my probation officer. He will help me. He tries to help me make it every day. He makes me play it cool. So begins the 23rd Psalm, as revised by an eleven-year-old delinquent boy at ...

A new book immerses us in the strange, subversive logic of his financial parables. When students in my Old Testament courses contrast the allegedly messy world of the first testament with the ...