The Storytelling God
Seeing the Glory of Jesus in His Parables
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Pub Date Feb 28 2014 | Archive Date Mar 03 2014
Description
Jesus’s parables offer Christians brilliant insights into the heart and mind of God. Forsaking a moralistic approach to the text, Wilson helps readers experience afresh the glories of Christ in these simple, yet profound, stories.
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Advance Praise
“Growing up in church and Christian
schools, I was taught that Jesus’s parables were basically about how we
should live. To be sure, many of the parables do show us God’s standard
for our lives, but they also reveal how we have failed to live up to
that standard, and how God in his infinite mercy has done for us what we
could never do for ourselves. My friend Jared Wilson shows how Jesus
used parables to illustrate the upside-down and counterintuitive ways of
God compared to our ways. We see how the parables are not a witness to
the best people making it up to God, but rather a witness to God making
it down to the worst people—meeting our rebellion with his rescue, our
sin with his salvation, our guilt with his grace, our badness with his
goodness. Thanks for the reminder, Jared. I keep forgetting that this
whole thing is about Jesus, not me.”
—Tullian Tchividjian, Pastor, Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; author, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World
“Jared
Wilson’s new book is a punch in the gut. Gone are the tame,
bedtime-story versions of the parables we’ve been told in the past.
Instead, Wilson invites us to see them afresh with all of their
explosive, imaginative power.”
—Mike Cosper, Pastor of Worship and Arts, Sojourn Community Church, Louisville, Kentucky
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9781433536687 |
PRICE | $22.50 (USD) |
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