"Jesus got into a boat and sat down, and the whole crowd stood along the shore” (Matt 13:2). Jer 1:1, 4-10; Mt 13:1-9 The setting of Jesus’ parables in Matthew 13 is itself a parable. Jesus chooses as ...

“Hear the parable of the sower” (Matt 13:18). The familiar parable of the sower is the first parable Jesus tells in Matthew’s Gospel. This makes sense because it is a parable about parables, how to ...

How the genre of the biblical text should shape sermon structure. If you preach a series on the Psalms and every sermon has three points, you may be suffering from acute hardening of the outlines. A ...

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 ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The parable of the Good Samaritan is a beautiful story superbly told by the master of story telling. One would be hard-pressed to mention story tellers comparable to Jesus Christ, ...

The renowned Jewish scholar Dr. Amy-Jill Levine tells us the truth about the parables associated with Jesus in her “Short Stories by Jesus.” It is an excellent, eye-opening, and thought-provoking easy ...

The president has used the mountainside sermon several times in recent years to explain policy. WASHINGTON — In a 2006 speech here, then-Sen. Barack Obama said Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount was so ...