The power is not in the trope, but in the referent.” A warning for preachers: Reading Proclaiming the Parables will take a while. Every biblical parable is present and accounted for. Long takes each ...

Parable of the Good Samaritan In the Parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus uses the example of the Jew and the Samaritan, who would not ordinarily have been friendly towards each other.

Robert Kiyosaki is a very successful businessman and author, having penned the extremely popular Rich Dad Poor Dad personal ...

Hollywood didn’t ignore the play’s success either. In 1960, Inherit the Wind became a multiple Oscar-nominated film, ...

In the parable of the Good Samaritan, found in Luke 10:25-37, a Jewish man is traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho and is robbed of everything he had and is beaten to within an inch of his life.

The author of the Southern Reach novels recommends immersive, entertaining books that grapple with the psychological reality ...

In the parable of the Prodigal Son, the father forgives his son when he returns and welcomes him home. In the same way, God waits for humans to realise what they have done wrong and ask for ...

It is impossible to deduce what God truly wants simply by observing the ways of the world. Our service of God can only be ...

Both times that I’ve been struck by a careless driver someone came forward to say, “I’ve got your back. I saw what happened.” I felt such gratitude that someone I didn’t know wanted to help. The ...

It’s ironic that many characters are offended by an animal capable of instinct alone, when they as humans – capable of reason ...

The point is we can boast all we want about our achievements and our knowledge, our success or our theology, but if none of ...