Tag: parables
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February 17, 2009 01:43 PM EST --
R. S. V. P.
Have you ever planned a party or large gathering in honor of someone else? It is no small task on any level. There is the matter of planning, financing, delegating, ordering, cleaning, . . .
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September 19, 2007 12:36 AM EDT --
So my boyfriend brought my attention to this fabulous parable from The Parables of Kierkegaard.
The wife and the orientalist
Somewhere in Holland there lived a learned man, he was an orientalist . . .
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March 11, 2008 11:41 AM EDT --
Note: This article examines the gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. In this gospel, Jesus makes a number of statements, which begin with, "The kingdom of Heaven is like..." As a follower . . .
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March 19, 2008 03:57 AM EDT --
Note: This article examines the meaning of the parable found in the New Testament account in Luke, Chapter 16, regarding a rich man and his dishonest manager. This parable follows the well-known story . . .
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February 28, 2009 09:39 AM EST --
Note: This discussion focuses on two unusual encounters with Jesus in the gospel of Luke, Chapter 7 and the gospel of John, Chapter 13.
Beyond Courtesy
In the ancient world of the Roman . . .
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February 01, 2007 08:21 PM EST --
©2007 James A. Harris
A story loosely based on my experiences in Guatemala, in 1998.
She sat watching the younger women washing their clothes in the city park fountain. She clicked her . . .
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October 19, 2007 04:26 AM EDT --
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November 29, 2006 10:37 AM EST --
One day a wealthy father took his son on a trip to the country so that the son could see how the poor lived. They spent a day and a night at the farm of a very poor family. When they got back from their . . .
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February 05, 2007 11:46 PM EST --
Since I began my spiritual journey, many years ago, I have understood the importance of reading. So when I was trying to figure out which side was up after my husband left me and after my diagnosis . . .
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January 17, 2008 01:32 AM EST --
Records show that there really was a real man named Aesop who told real fables. He lived in ancient Greece, about six hundred years BC. One of the early historians, Herodotus, who also spoke of . . .
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January 13, 2007 01:13 AM EST --
The Church as the Good Samaritan
And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" He said to him, "What is written in . . .
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March 20, 2008 12:44 PM EDT --
I found an interesting parable I would like to share with Gather folks. This is one of my favorite. The text is based on a literal translation from the Chinese, found in an appendix to I.A. . . .
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June 13, 2009 02:52 PM EDT --
DIFFICULT QUESTIONS ABOUT BIBLE PROPHECY ANSWERED HERE. SERIOUS QUESTIONS ONLY PLEASE. PARABLES EXPLAINED ALSO.
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January 15, 2008 09:18 AM EST --
Book Review: The Fables of Aesop
Based on the texts of L'Estrange and Croxall
When my children were very young and we were homeschooling, I incorporated into our history and geography . . .
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January 18, 2008 03:52 PM EST --
Have you ever heard of the wealth of Croesus? Well it is not a myth! There was really a King of Lydia, the last one in fact, who ruled from 560 to 546 BC. He captured major Greek cities in Western Anatolia . . .
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January 20, 2008 09:51 PM EST --
Like Socrates, and other later Greek teachers, Aesop did not write out his teachings, but gave them by word of mouth, to be copied down by his hearers. That is why no collection of fables can be definitely . . .
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January 22, 2008 02:13 AM EST --
Aesop knew what it was like to be a slave. He had once had two masters. But now
he was a free man. "One of the privileges of a freedman in the ancient republics of Greece, was the permission . . .
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January 24, 2008 07:22 PM EST --
In his travels, Aesop visited Athens, Corinth, and many other cities and provinces, teaching the people by means of fables. He reasoned wisely that while men do not like to be told their faults outright, . . .
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January 28, 2008 03:11 AM EST --
Aesop for Today, January 28
In Germany, the Reformers thought highly of Aesop's Fables , and used them vigorously against their opponents. Martin Luther even began a new translation of them, and . . .
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January 29, 2008 06:58 AM EST --
Aesop for Today, January 29
Aesop lives on today in many forms. There are storybooks filled with beautiful illustrations and easy to understand wording created just for small children. We have books . . .
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