Tag: parable
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Matthew 25 – Parable of the Ten Virgins
Awake, the voice is calling us! “Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme” (literally: Awake, the voice is calling us) is a Lutheran hymn written in German by Philipp Nicolai, first published in 1599 together with “Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern”. It appears in German hymnals and in several English hymnals in translations such as “Wake,…
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INTRO to our Story of The Gardener, the Shepherd and the Hunter
INTRODUCTION: Once upon a time… I love a story that begins, Once upon a time, don’t you? Your parents may have used different names for stories like this: Fairy Tales, Fables, Adventures, Fantasies, Science fiction. (I think Disney has a ‘LAND‘ for every one of them.) Romances… (You know, “.. AND THEY LIVED HAPPILY EVER…
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A Priest, a Rabbi & a Stranger …
A 21st Century Parable You know the old story (actually, several variations on a theme). Three men (but today you might have to include other designations) encounter the same situation and the third one gets the punch line. That’s not quite what happened to me recently as I witnessed the following story (which also includes…
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