Parables (127)
  1. I once saw a man holding a sign that read: Divorce is an abomination. Repent! That’s it. Nothing else.
  2. Jesus tells the story of a man traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho who falls into the hands of robbers. The text reads, “They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead.”
  3. You see, officers, this son of our congregation was dead, and has come back to life again; he was lost, and has been found.
  4. Who are we, really, but a bag of blood and bones, in which are mixed in bittersweet memories and the shards of shattered dreams and broken hearts?
  5. You think the sower sowed his seed in you because he saw such good soil, such a good, generous, noble person.
  6. Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all? You are, who are flesh of flesh and bone of bone with Jesus, our Jacob.
  7. Not only does he give them a fourth chance; he risks the very life of his son in doing so. There lay three of his servants, with blackened eyes and broken bones, scarred by cuts and abrasions, and he imagines things will go better for his son?