In response to Mark Wolfson’s Monday letter to the editor in which he identifies the Bible as a book of parables: He’s correct. Jesus often communicated spiritual principles to his listeners by use of ...

"And some fell into good soil and grew, and yielded a hundredfold. As he said this, he called out, ‘He who has ears to hear, let him hear’" (Luke 8:8). This Bible verse is from the Gospel of Luke, one ...

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 ...

This parable in the Bible Luke 18: 1-7 from highlights the importance of prayer in our lives. “And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; Saying, ...

The Bible has the power to generate new meaning in new contexts and thereby to affirm both unity and diversity in communities whose members engage one another around the text. To show students this ...

This is French artist James Tissot’s depiction of Jesus teaching the people in parables like the one about the Wise and Foolish Builder. Tissot lived from 1836-1902. (Courtesy Photo) Jesus told 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 ...

The Parables Retold is a series of short films based on some of the most famous of Jesus’ parables. Created in the UK, this series brings these stories to life by adapting them to screen and to the ...