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Good Samaritan

Awareness, Good Samaritan, Living Like Jesus, Love, Parable, Patience

In 1971, two Princeton psychologists staged an experiment. They took forty seminarians and told them they were going to record their sermons. Half were…

The Snail’s Journey Towards The Ark

Help, Parable, Provision, Trusting God

Charles Spurgeon wrote, “By perseverance the snail reached the ark.” Breaking the analogy down in a children’s book, Dorothy M. Stewart writes about the highs and lows…

A Tale of Two Trees

Fruit, Jesus' Teaching, Matthew, Parable, The Gospels

In the Bible, Jesus warns about false prophets who look like good guys but really are bad news (Matthew 7:15). He uses the illustration…

The Blue Marble

Generosity, Giving Your Life, Parable, Sacrifice, Salvation, Story, Submission

“[In an article for Decision magazine], Samuel Kamaleson illustrates [the difficulty of submission] through a Christian folk story from South India. … It opens…

Discipleship Parable

Christian Life, Disciples, Discipleship, Dr. Strange, Movies, Parable

In the movie Strange, the main character (played by Benedict Cumberbatch) is shown a new world that he had yet to believe existed by…

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