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Modern Parables / Venden, Morris L / (PB/1994-1994/LCW/B+/USED)

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*Condition Note: Book is clean and lightly used with light cover wear.*

 

They say that we're all ignorant—just on different subjects. You may be a walking encyclopedia about computers, but know basically nothing about what's under the hood of your car. Someone else may be on airplanes who knows zilch about brain surgery.
What a great help it is when someone begins explaining something we know nothing about with, begin explaining something we know nothing about with, "A computer (a carburetor, a jet, the human brain) is like"
Relating the unknown to the known is the genius of parable. When Jesus had to get across abstract concepts like faith and love and the kingdom of heaven, that's exactly what He did. "The kingdom of heaven is like" He would say, and another parable was on its way. People couldn't get enough of them.
Because they bring heaven a little closer to earth, people still love parables today, as Pastor Morris Venden has discovered wherever he's preached. Those who have heard the modern parables he shares in his sermons are constantly asking him for copies, which he has now gathered into this book.
The parables inside? Well, they're like...Then again, why not just read them yourself?

 

Table of Contents

Foreword
ON THINKING CLEARLY
The Rich Man and the Million Dollars
Jesus, Your Best Friend

ON KNOWING TRUTH
Those Jericho Walls
How Not to Worry
The Baker and the Bread

ON THE GOSPEL
The Death of Ben Trying
The Scorpion and the Frog
Travel to Shalom
The Trouble With Grace

ON THE FULL GOSPEL
Gospel Showdown
Building Foundations and Walls
The Parable of the Sick Man
'Bye, 'Bye, Rabboni
The Hunter and the Bear
The Lion and the Tiger

ON CONVERSION
Cadaver and Friends
Leonard, the Uptight Wolf
Lawrence and Christina
Ten Commandments--Modern

ON SURRENDER
"I Don't" and "I Do"
The Diesel Truck
My Hitchhiking Brother
My New Volkswagen
The Plot of Ground
The Boxing Match
Swimming to Hawaii

ON RELATIONSHIP
Marriage Proposal: Be My Wife
Marriage Proposal: Be My God
Are You Married?
Coming Home
Thirsty Ed
The Banquet
The Best Six Doctors
Why I Can't Play the Guitar
Private Prayer

ON GROWTH
The Special Olympics
What Does Is Say, Daddy?
The Crooked Sapling
Old Silas Phipps

ON WITNESS
Jordan Consultation
Lifesaving
Walking to PUC

ON CHURCH
The Biggest Church Around
Why I Don't Go to the Movies
Free Cadillacs
Insiders, Outsiders
The Trolley Car

ON BAPTISM
Too Soon Oldt und Too Late Schmardt

ON THE SABBATH
Sabbath Visit

ON ACCEPTING AUTHORITY
The Farmer's Educated Son

ON THE SECOND COMING
Jesus' Coming to PUC
The Night I Was Too Busy

ON THE JUDGMENT
The Way It Was and the Way It Wasn't
Good News, Bad News
Judge Not

ON FAMILY
Dad and Me Together
When Mother Tucked Me In

IN CONCLUSION
Letters to Noah
Go in There

 

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Other Details

Binding:
Paperback
Copyright:
1994
Printed:
1994
Pages:
219
Publisher:
Pacific Press Publishing Association
Condition:
B+

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