Modern Parables, Volume 1


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A film-based Bible study curriculum based on 6 parables, set in modern times ; Each parable story includes the Parable Film and an Application Video, with a total of 12 lessons.




Modern Parables


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Many Things in Parables


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In this splendid introduction to the elusive rhetorical device central to the New Testament picture of Jesus, Charles Hedrick explores the nature of the parable and its history of use. He asks basic questions such as, what is a parable? is Jesus really the author of the parables? and what does a parable mean? and then reviews a range of sources--from Aesop's fables to modern New Testament scholarship--to answer them. He also surveys the various ways the parables have been approached in literary criticism throughout history, giving specific examples of each method and delineating their strengths and weaknesses.




Modern Day Parables


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A reputably insane Russian neighbor, a housecat that eats at the table, and traumatic seventh-grade stories, Billy exemplifies the hardship and imagination of growing up as the last kid on the block to have Mega Man. Through Billy's experiences, parables much like Jesus' are shared and lessons learned. Modern Day Parables is an easy way to relate to others about tough biblical topics. Author Luke Arthur illustrates several biblical themes in a new way that everyone will understand. Themes such as faith, truth, gratitude, and salvation are woven into entertaining stories that young and old will enjoy.




Modern Day Christian Parables Vol 2


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Short stories that have a that spark the imagination, but at the end is an explanation of the parable and the lesson it's meant to teach.




Imperial Messages


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A collection of parables--stories with implicit morals--includes the work of Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jerzy Kosinski, Elie Wiesel, Dostoyevski, and Bob Dylan




Biblical Parables and Their Modern Re-creations


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In Biblical Parables and Their Modern Re-creations, Gila Safran Naveh carefully charts the historical transformation of these deceptively simple narratives to reveal fundamental shifts in their form, function, and most significantly, their readers' cognitive processes. Bringing together for the first time parables from the Scriptures, the synoptic Gospels, Chassidic tales, and medieval philosophy with the mashal, the rabbinic parables commonly used to interpret Scripture, this book brilliantly contrasts the rhetorical strategies of ancient parables with more recent examples of the genre by Kafka, Borges, Calvino, and Agnon. By using an interdisciplinary approach and insights from current semiotic, linguistic, psychoanalytic, and gender theories, Naveh reveals a dramatic social, cultural, and political shift in the way we view the divine.




The Orthodox Heretic and Other Impossible Tales


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In opposition to those who would claim that Christian faith embraces God at the expense of the suffering world, Rollins shows how the true believer embraces God only inasmuch as he fully embraces a needy world.




Let Your Heart Take Flight


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More than two thousand years ago, Jesus walked the earth, teaching multitudes profound truths based on everyday experiences they could relate to?truths that changed lives for eternity. In our modern age, He is still teaching profound truths, but with something of a modern-day spin. In Let Your Heart Take Flight the seemingly ordinary takes on extraordinary meaning: from bus rides to cupcakes, candlelight dinners, and a show; from planes, trains, boats, and binoculars to cyberspace. Whether you are looking for parking or looking for direction, you can find Jesus there. Perhaps you have never met Jesus, or perhaps you have known Him for some time. Either way, your ordinary is about to take on a whole new extraordinary meaning. You can have God's promise of abundant life, so Let Your Heart Take Flight!




What's So Amazing About Grace? Revised and Updated


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OVER TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD! It's the most powerful force in the universe, our only hope for love and forgiveness, and a foretaste of eternal life: amazing, radical, life-changing grace. Millions of lives have been changed by award-winning author Philip Yancey's startling exploration of grace at street level. Grace is the one thing the world can't duplicate, the healing force we need, and the key to transforming a broken world. In this revised and updated edition of his personal and provocative book, Yancey offers true portraits of grace's life-changing power. These stories, set in the midst of life's stark realities, evoke such questions as: If grace is God's love for the undeserving, how do I get it? How well are we dispensing grace to a world that knows far more of strife and unforgiveness than it does of mercy? Can grace make a difference in the midst of such atrocities as the Nazi holocaust, and how can it withstand the brutality of hate? With powerful stories, rich theology, and practical suggestions, Yancey challenges us to become living answers to a world that desperately needs to know, What's So Amazing About Grace?