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Modern Parables: Stories That Make Spiritual Truth Come Alive
By Morris L. Venden
Paperback, 129 pages
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ISBN: 9780816311965
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They say that we're all ignorant--just on different subjects. You may be a waking encyclopedia about computers, but know basically nothing about what's under the hood of your car. Someone else may be an expert on airplanes who know zilch about brain surgery.
What a great help it is when someone begins explaining somethin we know nothing about with, "A computer (a carburetor...a jet...the human brain) is like..." Relating the unkown to the know is the genius of a 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 parapble 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?
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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