Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/Outreach/July 2014



From the Editor July headlines...

Focus on... THE LIFE OF JESUS

The parables of Jesus are usually seemingly simple and memorable stories, but the messages they convey are deep, and central to his teachings. His parables are not mere similitudes which serve the purpose of illustration, but are internal analogies where nature becomes a witness to the spiritual message of Jesus.

The article Parables of Jesus provides a list of the parables, and a easy to follow visual guide that groups them.

John 14:10 stresses the importance of the words of Jesus, and attributes them to the authority of God the Father: "The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work."

From the bookshelf The parables of Jesus: lessons in life from the Master Teacher by J. Pentecost, 1998 ISBN 0-8254-3458-0

In this book J. Dwight Pentecost provides a more detailed analysis of the parables of Jesus than in his other book The Words & Works of Jesus Christ (ISBN 0310309409) which relates the words and works. The analysis in this book is parable by parable and systematic, yet highly insightful.

Did you know...
 * ... that the various 9th to 11th century Golden Gospels (Codex Aureus) derive their name from the fact that they use gold leaf or are written with gold ink?

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