The Parable Life

Table of Contents

PARABLELIFE: Living the stories Jesus told in real time

  1. Hearing eyes, seeing ears: Adventures in traveling without a map
  2. Negative Affirmative: Choosing to live your yes
    [The story of the R.S.V.P. in Luke 14:12-23]
  3. Monochrome rainbow: Living a full-spectrum life
    [The story of the dirge that rocked the house in Matt. 11:16-19 & Luke 7:31-35]
  4. Unburried Treasure: What does it mean to be a found seeker?
    [Stories of found valuables in Matthew 13:44-46]
  5. Blind Justice: The power of the choice to forgive
    [The story of a vigilante "victim" in Matthew 18:21-35]
  6. Dangerous Safety: How to be a lifeguard with two broken arms
    [The story of the merciful neighbor in Luke 10:25-37]
  7. Sandy granite: Why choose an inconvenient life?
    [The story of two builders in Matthew 7:24-27 & Luke 6:46-49]
  8. Unbiased discrimination: How does a lion and lamb economy work in a bulls and bears world?
    [The story of a day's work for a day's pay... or not, in Matthew 20:1-16]
  9. Obsessive compulsion: When do you grab on and refuse to let go?
    [The story of a woman with a one-track mind in Luke 18:1-18]
  10. Successful failure: What goes on behind the curtain of a great performance?
    [The story of a religious superstar and a religious flop in Luke 18:9-14]
  11. Unforced slavery: Living as a lover, not an employee
    [The story of commitment in word only in Matthew 25:1-13]

UPROOTED: Growing a parable life from the inside out

  1. The Story of One Fine Vine
  2. Logical mystery: How can an hour contain 60 minutes of eternity?
    [The story of a seed's happily ever after in Mark 4:26-29]
  3. Enormous fleck: What happens when something invisible is all you can see?
    [The story of the little seed that could... and did in Matthew 13:31-32]
  4. Edible compost: Growing against the sow
    [The story of the ultimate weed-whackers in Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43]
  5. Fragrant stench: words with a life all their own
    [The story of the tree planted on top of a septic tank in Matthew 12:33-35]
  6. Deep-rooted shallowness: How do you create a home while you're on the road to home
    [Mark 4:1-9, 13-20; Luke 8:4-8, 11-15]
  7. Unsatisfied contentment: When does hunger become a way of life?
    [The story of old boys in a new world in Matthew 9:14-17; Mark 2:18-22; Luke 5:33-39]
  8. Mute soprano: How can a whisper shout down a chainsaw?
    [The story of the arborist arbitrator in Luke 13:6-9]
  9. Deliberate recklessness: What happens when pain swallows promise?
    [The story of tenants gone (really) wild in Matthew 21:33-46; Mark 12:1-12; Luke 20:9-19]
  10. Honor roll F: How on earth do I learn the timeline of heaven?
    [The story of the beginning of the end of the story in Matthew 24:32-35; Mark 13:28-31; Luke 21:29-33]
  11. Uprooting