[jesus, the middle eastern storyteller] author’s closing thoughts
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by Gary M. Burge I’m really honored that each of you have taken the time to give a thoughtful reading to this short book. I often feel that there is a huge gap between the world of scholarship (where I live) and the world of the church. We publish and discuss technical matters regularly but [...]
[jesus, the middle eastern storyteller] chapter 7: the foolish builder
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by Gabriel Morton Luke 12:13-21 The Foolish Builder? I beg to differ. I believe a better title for this chapter is Selfish vs. Selfless. If you boil this chapter down to the nitty-gritty, that’s what it’s all about. Let me fill you in: The central story for this chapter is a man who asked [...]
[jesus, the middle eastern storyteller] chapter 6: finding the lost
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by Jesse Giglio (check out the artsy version of this contribution) Luke 15 This chapter addresses those who are were lost but also separated. People socially pushed to the margins due to race or practice or mistakes. Jesus embraces these people of separation in such a way that he himself is marginalized. He himself is [...]
[jesus, the middle eastern storyteller] chapter 6: finding the lost (artsy version)
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by Jesse Giglio (check out the straight-up version of this contribution) Luke 15 Please Come Home by Dustin Kensrue Well I woke one morning, found you staring down at me, you said “I’ll take my share now, father please”, and you took your money, and you took your leave, you drilled my heart and turned your [...]
[jesus, the middle eastern storyteller] chapter 5: stories about forgiveness
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by Nadine Schleicher Matthew 18:21-35 I have to admit I was a little nervous but very excited when I agreed to do this blog, I have never done something like this before and I can’t wait to see what God is going to do through everyone working together on the blog! Chapter 5 is based [...]
[jesus, the middle eastern storyteller] chapter 4: stories about compassion
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by Jeremy Carnes Luke 10:25-37 This chapter is mainly about the parable of the Good Samaritan that Jesus masterly crafts to a teacher of the law. This exchange between Jesus and the priest starts with the question “What must be done to gain eternal life?” Jesus asks “What is written in the Law?” and the [...]
[jesus, the middle eastern storyteller] chapter 3: stories about excuses
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by Samantha Rozell Luke 14:15-24 Excuses, excuses, excuses. Most of us hear them everyday. Many of us even make excuses throughout our day. Chapter 3, titled stories about excuses, focuses on one parable found in Luke 14, the parable of the banquet (or feast depending on your translation of the Bible). Most of us I’m [...]
[jesus, the middle eastern storyteller] chapter 2: the friend who came at midnight
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by Sean Wrench Luke 11:1-13 I was pretty stoked to have this chapter assigned to me. Honestly when I saw the chapter titles it was one I was looking forward most to reading. Prayer. The Bible tells us it’s one of the single most important things in life we can do. It’s how we directly [...]
[jesus, the middle eastern storyteller] chapter 1: jesus’ storytelling world
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by Angela Kerns Gary Burge describes Jesus as a storyteller who communicates with word pictures, dramatic actions, metaphors, and stories. Fortunately for us this author does many of these same things. The hallmark of a good writer, so I’ve been told, is in one’s ability to draw word pictures, to “show” rather than “tell”. This [...]
[jesus, the middle eastern storyteller] introduction
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I was talking with my class recently about how there are so many different ‘versions’ of the Gospel. If you look around hard enough, you’ll find someone preaching from the Bible whatever it is that you want to hear from it! At the root of this problem is the idea that most Christians are not [...]
group blogging project: jesus, the middle eastern storyteller
This group blogging project is a little different than most. Not because of the format, but because of the content. The book that we are taking on with this special group blogging project falls a bit more into the category of Bible reference and study tools rather than some of the great topical books that [...]
