*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?
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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