In the first of two programmes on the parables of Jesus, Sean Fletcher meets Christians inspired by one of his most famous ...

Preachers this July will find no fewer than seven parables in the Sunday readings. Matthew collects them in Chapter 13: the parable of the sower, the wheat and the weeds, the mustard seed, the yeast, ...

Why did Jesus speak to people in parables? Scholars are agreed beyond doubt that Jesus taught in parables. The parable is a type of speech act in which the speaker attempts to draw comparisons between ...

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.

The Bible tells us in Matthew 13:34, "All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them." When Jesus wanted to get a spiritual truth across to ...

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 ...

"Jesus got into a boat and sat down, and the whole crowd stood along the shore” (Matt 13:2). Jer 1:1, 4-10; Mt 13:1-9 The setting of Jesus’ parables in Matthew 13 is itself a parable. Jesus chooses as ...

Postmodernism, with its critique of modern assumptions about knowledge, language, authority and narrative, presents new challenges for preachers. Postmodernity is generally seen as entailing a ...