{"id":1246,"date":"2025-09-09T21:31:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T21:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesusworldview.org\/resource-library\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2025-10-09T14:58:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T14:58:16","slug":"stories-jesus-still-tells-the-parables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesusworldview.org\/resource-library\/stories-jesus-still-tells-the-parables\/","title":{"rendered":"Stories Jesus Still Tells: The Parables"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by John Claypool<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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John Claypool was a uniquely gifted communicator \u2014 speaking and writing with the honesty and humility of fellow traveler. It was a model he picked up from Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJesus chose images that were familiar to his hearers,\u201d he writes in this 1993book, revised in 2000. \u201cHe was not an elitist reserving his meanings for the privileged few.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The title of the book speaks clearly to Claypool\u2019s premise: that the ancient stories Jesus told to his first followers are both available and applicable to those who dare to follow him today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Stories Jesus Still Tells<\/em>, readers are invited into select parables of Jesus that convey the very nature of God through the most basic and accessible everyday experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claypool\u2019s mining of Jesus\u2019 parables is illuminated by his own effective telling of contemporary stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In chapter seven, titled \u201cA Midnight Request\u201d and based on Luke 11:5-13, Claypool writes: \u201cThe longer I live, the more convinced I become that there are only two basic realities \u2014 love and fear.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great tragedy within much of Americanized Christianity today is the degree to which professing Christians are driven by fear over love. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat occurs on the perceptional level is what shapes our behavior,\u201d writes Claypool. \u201cThis is precisely where Jesus chose to do his redemptive work and why parables like the one of the neighbor\u2019s midnight request are of seminal importance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those seeking understanding and inspiration from Jesus\u2019 parables, this is a good source. It is fitting for personal reading, sermon preparation and group study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Review by John D. Pierce, Director of the Jesus Worldview Initiative<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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