parable

Tagged Discussions

emptychair @innertalks (23734) • Australia 18 Jun 24

A man once went out, and sat down on a rock, which was hard on his backside, after a while. He said to the rock: "Why are you so hard, and not soft, like me?" The rock replied: [i]"Never can there be two rock like...

4 responses •

5 people

Daily Bible Study

Valerie J. Routhieaux @just4him (323168) • Green Bay, Wisconsin 18 Sep 23

Day 65 Luke 8:4 When a great multitude had gathered, and they had come to Him from every city, He spoke by a parable. 5 “A Sower went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell by the wayside; were trampled down, and the birds...

1 response •

1 person

Daily Bible Study

Valerie J. Routhieaux @just4him (323168) • Green Bay, Wisconsin 29 Aug 23

Day 46 Mark 4:14 “The Sower sows the word. 15 And these are the ones by the wayside where the word is sown. When they hear, Satan comes immediately and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts. 16 These likewise are the...

4 responses •

4 people

Daily Bible Study

Valerie J. Routhieaux @just4him (323168) • Green Bay, Wisconsin 18 Aug 23

Day 36 Matthew 13:1 On the same day, Jesus went out of the house and sat by the sea. 2 And great multitudes gathered to Him, so that He got into a boat and sat, and the whole multitude stood on the shore. 3 Then He said many...

2 responses •

3 people

Parable: Time should not be pushed against, or it will push back against you

emptychair @innertalks (23734) • Australia 17 Sep 22

An old man was riding on a train, looking idly out the window, when he saw outside, a man riding a bike, holding up a sign towards the train. It said: [b]"This train once killed my mother, when she was on this train, ten...

10 responses •

9 people

Parable: The chicken farmer

emptychair @innertalks (23734) • Australia 16 Jun 22

John Samson was a chicken farmer, who sold and bred many different species of chickens. When he was old, having spent his whole life in this field, he would have liked his only son, Isaac, to have followed in his...

5 responses •

4 people

Short parable: The prayerful Sea Captain, was also a powerful Sea Captain

emptychair @innertalks (23734) • Australia 17 May 22

There was once a sea captain who believed in his ability to safely steer his ship through any storm. One day, a huge storm blew up, though, and with the panicking of his crew all around him, he thought to himself,...

5 responses •

6 people

Short story: A parable about love, truth, and thankfulness

emptychair @innertalks (23734) • Australia 25 Nov 21

Jack Lemon sat down at his table to a meal that his wife had prepared for him to eat, as was his usual custom. This time, though, he looked up at his wife, and he said, [i]"Thank-you, my dear. I do not thank you often...

6 responses •

7 people

A Short Parable: The Lost Tree

emptychair @innertalks (23734) • Australia 14 Sep 21

[i]This is a short story about a person who cut down the tree that provided the entrance for them to their own forest of God's plentiful love. We must keep our own tree growing by connecting to other trees. We all live within the...

2 responses •

4 people

Short story: A parable for today. Self-responsibility

emptychair @innertalks (23734) • Australia 29 Jun 21

John was walking around his block, when he stubbed his foot on a raised lump of concrete, on the path. He swore blue murder, as it hurt. Then he blamed the council for this mishappenstance to him. He kept walking,...

4 responses •

6 people

Parable: A camel parable, about that mammal.

emptychair @innertalks (23734) • Australia 28 May 21

Two camel drivers met each other in the desert. One said to the other, "Two humps are better than one hump", comparing his two humped camel to the other man's camel, which only had one hump. The other cameleer...

9 responses •

11 people

Short Story: A man, and his horse, who were both good friends of God too.

emptychair @innertalks (23734) • Australia 19 May 21

There was a man, who owned a horse, and it worked for him long and hard, for the best part of twenty years, working in his field for him, and pulling his cart to the market. Then the horse died, and he buried it in his...

6 responses •

6 people

Short story: A lost parable of Jesus Christ: The stone becomes a pebble

emptychair @innertalks (23734) • Australia 19 Dec 20

A small rock fragment broke off of a rocky mountain cliff, and it fell down the cliff into the winding river, raging along in the valley below. Years went by, and this small chip of rock, split off originally from the...

3 responses •

3 people

Hodgkin's Disease - the CoViD-19 two millenniums ago.

eileenleyva @eileenleyva (27555) • Philippines 10 Nov 20

The Parable of the Ten Lepers is one of the most often told tale on the subject of gratitude. Out of the ten who called out to our Lord Jesus for pity, only one, a Samaritan, when he realized he was cleaned, turned back, glorified...

3 responses •

5 people

Lamps must be filled with oil.

eileenleyva @eileenleyva (27555) • Philippines 8 Nov 20

The parable of the five wise virgins and five foolish virgins waiting for the coming of the groom had a moment of quandary - when the five foolish ones asked for oil to light their lamps from the five wise ones, because the groom...

1 response •

1 person

The Parable of the Dishonest Steward

eileenleyva @eileenleyva (27555) • Philippines 6 Nov 20

In today's Gospel from Luke 16, our Lord tells the story of a dishonest steward who was let go. To save his self from manual labor or begging, he devised a way that would allow him to remain in good standing with the debtors. He...

1 response •

1 person

A parable about fear.

emptychair @innertalks (23734) • Australia 28 Mar 20

The creator was alive in love, and he created his creation, likewise, alive in love too. Then fear entered the house, through a rear door. Where did it come from, not from God, but from within you, his creation,...

4 responses •

4 people

What is real Love? Can it be stopped by the Law?

emptychair @innertalks (23734) • Australia 21 Dec 19

A parable on Law and Love Love lives in everyone. Law only lives in those who know the law, that particular law, and yet, love gives us an innate knowledge of what is right and wrong, or love and non-love...

2 responses •

2 people

An Atheistic Bible Study Of The Gospel Parables Of Jesus The Lost Sheep

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 4 Jun 19

Luke 15:3-7 and Matthew 18:12–14 touch on this simple parable in which Jesus talks of a shepherd tending a flock of 100 sheep. Counting them, he finds that one is missing and leaving the others he goes searching for it. Finding...

4 responses •

3 people

An Atheistic Bible Study Of The Gospels The Parable Of The Hidden Treasure

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 18 Mar 19

Matthew 13:44 offers another one line parable disregarded in the other three Gospels. This time Jesus compares the Kingdom of Heaven to buried treasure. A man buries the treasure in a field, but the field itself falls into...

1 response •

1 person