Matthew 21 reminds us that Jesus had made his victorious entrance into Jerusalem on the day that we call Palm Sunday. That same day, Jesus had a confrontational incident with those who were making ...

The importance of the parables can hardly be overestimated. They comprise a substantial part of the recorded preaching of Jesus. The parables are generally regarded by scholars as among the sayings ...

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Jesus was a master of teaching truths through parables. Jesus’ parables are short stories that teach a moral or spiritual lesson using ordinary everyday experiences, analogy or similar comparisons.

Jesus' parables are among the most memorable and distinctive elements in the Gospels. Jesus uses these striking short stories to explain the extraordinary, unexpected and apocalyptic nature of God's ...

Our pursuit of justice in the present foreshadows the perfect justice of an age to come. The church in which I grew up talked a lot about the imminence of the Second Coming and the Day of Judgment. We ...