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80Suffering, Miracles and the Kingdom of God
The healings and exorcisms the evangelists ascribe to Jesus are plentiful and impressive but they are less than what they seem to be.
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72Portrait of the Quintessential Story Teller
The parables throw brilliant light on many subjects, but the first Subject on whom they cast the brightest light is the Teller of the parables Himself.
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79Four Principles Underlying the Christian Faith
If the spiritual kingdom proclaimed by Jesus was a disappointment to Jewish expectations, its other attribute of universalism was in a still greater degree an offence to Jewish prejudice.
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74Bread of Spiritual Truth
It is amazing to realize how precarious our existence is here on planet earth. All that really stands between us and extinction is a thin layer of dirt which we call “topsoil.”
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71TRUTH Embodied in Stories
Just as when one thinks of “fables” Aesop’s immediately comes to mind, so when the subject of parable is discussed it is preeminently the parables of Jesus that come to mind.
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67Jesus' Concept of Man
What was central in the thought and religion of Jesus is clear in His recorded sayings; it was His love for the sinful outcasts, the "publicans and sinners" of Jewish society. This is an important and fundamental Christian fact. It reveals that Christ was not only a Teacher ushering in new moral doctrines, but that greater still was His love.
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68Jesus Christ: Pioneer of Christian Philanthropy
We find in the Synoptic Gospels, clues as to what was central in the thought and mind of Jesus in His recorded sayings. Above all, was His love and compassion to the outcast, the “publicans and sinners,” of Jewish society.
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73Is it Appropriate to Call Jesus Good?
I think the question of goodness is always one demanding careful consideration; for if we were to ask a thousand people if they considered themselves good, most would respond in the positive.
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65But I Say to You
Yet, we cannot help but notice that Christ’s attitude towards the Scriptures was different from the Rabbis, which He described as indiscriminate, idolatrous admiration.
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66The Kingdom of Heaven
During Jesus' time, the orthodox Jews detested those residing outside the confines of the holy city, including Jews of the Diaspora. Thus, a universal religion common to Jew and Gentile was unacceptable.
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