When Jesus preached so strikingly in parables ... (The reader may wish to peruse Aristotle's discussion of the parable in The "Art" of Rhetoric, Book II.) In Israel, parables were uttered by ...

In Jesus' parable, because of first-century patriarchal ... engraved and printed by the Dalziel Brothers (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Today, headline after headline in the news painfully remind ...

One of the most awesome aspects of Jesus’ preaching is His common use of parables — simple, everyday stories that carried ...

Learn more. I cannot disagree more with Dr. Aaron Rosen’s dark portrayal of Jesus’ parables (“What would Jesus do now? It’s actually a radical question,” Jan. 5 ). It is disheartening to ...

There are at least two striking notes to make about these parables. First, Jesus drew on common items around him to teach. Second — and this is the purpose and power of metaphor, poetry and art ...

By their nature, the story-lessons, or parables, attributed to Jesus have traditionally been ... Laid out with many vertical panels and 1/-page facing art, the illustrations often seem to enfold ...

McCollough has come to believe that art has the power to foster spiritual growth. In the book, McCollough uses photographs of his sculptures to wordlessly convey the message of Jesus’s parables ...

A famous preacher was teaching a seminary class on the parables of Jesus and noticed that all of his students seemed to prefer the ones with the happy endings. The tiny seed growing into a ...

(Courtesy Photo) Jesus told the Parables of the Mustard Seed and the Yeast not only to show the value of faith but also to warn about the insidiousness of sin. The Revs. Bill Hutto and Jesus Gomez ...