Jesus was a master of teaching truths through parables. Jesus’ parables are short stories that teach a moral or spiritual lesson using ordinary everyday experiences, analogy or similar comparisons.

One of the best known parables that Jesus taught us during his life on earth was the story of the good Samaritan. This familiar story tells of a man who was mugged on the road between Jericho and ...

The rabbis of the Talmud taught in parables, fanciful tales meant to illustrate moral principles. To what may a parable be compared? one of them once asked, that being the form of most rabbinical ...

A few years ago I became aware of a church in Texas that pulls out all the stops in celebrating Christmas. For more than 25 years, Northside Baptist Church in Victoria, Texas, has hosted an elaborate ...