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 ...

While we could spend weeks talking about parables, we'll move next to metaphors, which make a spiritual application. Examples ...

Jesus came to uncover that darkness, the hidden side of the world that leads to corruption. He came to shine God’s light on ...

Jesus is most famous, I think, for parables and aphorisms. And both of them are really ways of teaching ordinary people. Now, if you read them in the New Testament, it might take a minute to read ...

In the parables of the mustard seed and the yeast, Jesus talks of how even the smallest amount of faith can grow ...

This 1930s film captures scenes of daily life, labor, and architecture in a Middle Eastern or North African setting, possibly Jerusalem and surrounding areas. It depicts traditional agricultural ...

(NIV) In the parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus told the story of a Jewish man walking from Jerusalem to Jericho. On the journey he was attacked by robbers and left for dead. Two Jewish ...

A most interesting look at the parable of the Sower by our pastor, Jim Burgen. It is a parable that speaks about the Word we hear and how it impacts us according to what we want to hear. Let those ...