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 ...

Jesus' parables are among the most memorable and distinctive elements in the Gospels. Jesus uses these striking short stories to explain the extraordinary, unexpected and apocalyptic nature of God's ...

I have just finished preaching a series of sermons on Jesus’ parables. Jesus used many parables in his preaching and teaching. The Lord’s parables are very short stories taken from real-life ...

Preachers this July will find no fewer than seven parables in the Sunday readings. Matthew collects them in Chapter 13: the parable of the sower, the wheat and the weeds, the mustard seed, the yeast, ...

Swarzy hosts a week exploring favourite Parables of Jesus with Christian musicians across genres.

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.

A famous preacher was teaching a seminary class on the parables of Jesus and noticed that all of his students seemed to prefer the ones with the happy endings. The tiny seed growing into a humongous ...

In the Western world it is well known that the great teachers often used stories and parables to convey deeper meanings. The parables of Jesus in the New Testament, the saints’ lives written in the ...

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