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I have read that each of us experiences a relatively significant crisis on an average of once every six months or so. -
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The best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas. -
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The key to interpreting most allegories [i.e., parables] lies in recognizing what a small handful of characters, actions or symbols correspond to and then fitting the rest of the story in with them. -
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Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. To see all that is offered us at the windows of the soul, and to reach out and rece... -
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Rabbis spoke of parables as handles for understanding Torah; before parables no one understood the Torah, but when Solomon and others created parables, then people understood. -
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The question for each parable is: How did Jesus seek to change attitudes and behaviors with this parable? -
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Parables were the means Jesus used most frequently to explain the kingdom of God and to show the character of God and the expectations that God has for humans. -
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Stories are inherently interesting. Discourse we tolerate; to story we attend. Story entertains, informs, involves, motivates, authenticates, and mirrors existence. By creating a narrative world, stor... -
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Parables are chisels to create space and enable people to see and understand the in-breaking of the kingdom in a first-century world. -
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The defining problem driving people out is …just how American life works in the 21st century. Contemporary American life simply isn’t set up to promote mutuality, care, or common life. Rather, it is d... -
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If we only had eyes to see and ears to hear and wits to understand, we would know that the Kingdom of God in the sense of holiness, goodness, beauty is as close as breathing and is crying out to born ... -
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‘Gentle Jesus, meek and mild’, Such a dainty, fragile child, But the one we know is bold and strong We can hear that in your dying song, Little boy, little boy. ‘Just a boy of flesh and b... -
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The Parable is a form of speech that has a style all of its own. It is a way of saying something that requires the imaginative participation of the listener. Inconspicuously, even surreptitiously, a p... -
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Nature, the world, has no value, no interest for Christians. The Christian thinks only of himself and the salvation of his soul. -
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“Would I rather be feared or loved? That’s easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.” -
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Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on its journey; th... -
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"When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable." -
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If I am asked, “Do you believe in the divinity of Christ?” I answer, “Yes, otherwise how could he have been so wonderfully human?” And if I am asked, “Do you believe in the humanity of Christ?” I answ... -
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus. -
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The disciples are tossed on the waves again. They are in a storm, fully as bad as the previous one. Gently and by degrees he excites and urges the disciples on toward greater responsiveness, even to t...
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