The third volume in the Biblical Explorations series from bestselling New Testament writer Paula Gooder explores a major exponent of the Gospels: the parables of Jesus. It considers why Jesus spoke in pictures and opens up the world behind the parables to reveal just how striking, memorable and challenging they were for their original hearers.

Paula Gooder

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Introduction

Part 1: The Land and All That Lives on It

1. Weeds and Wheat, Sowing and Growing

2. On Vines, Vineyards and Fruit Trees

3. Fishing

4. Shepherds, Sheep and Goats

Part 2: Houses and Their Occupants

5. Everyday Objects

6. Buildings and Their Owners

7. Families

8. Slaves and Their Masters

9. Weddings and Banquets

Part 3: Money: Having It and Lacking It

10. Money: Having It

11. Money: Lacking It

Part 4: Odds and Ends

12. Parables That Don’t Fit Easily Elsewhere

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• The Biblical Explorations series is a gift of popular biblical scholarship to the Church and to personal faith. • A great resource for all-year round worship, preaching, study and reflection. • Over 100,000 Paula Gooder books sold.

The third volume in the Biblical Explorations series from bestselling New Testament writer Paula Gooder explores a major exponent of the Gospels: the parables of Jesus. Covering every parable, this volume focuses on some of the best-known stories in the gospels, mining their meaning afresh today. It considers why Jesus spoke in pictures and opens up the world behind the parables to reveal just how striking, memorable and challenging they were for their original hearers. Biblical Explorations is an exciting series that offers an accessible and informed study of the best loved texts in Scripture. Rooted in the conviction that greater understanding of the Bible leads to deeper discipleship, it is an essential resource for preachers, teachers and study group leaders, as well as those who simply wish to get to know the Bible better.

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Book 3 in the Biblical Explorations series, Paula's Gooder's study of the Parables is written in an accessible and engaging tone for all believers.

Gavin Lawson

Superb study guide from which to study the Parables. Not just a book to read through, although you can do this too. A proper study guide that will both broaden and deepen your knowledge of the Parables. Great small group questions at the end enable and encourage participants to turn knowledge into action. I am doing a series of talks called The Nature of the Kingdom - The Parables of Jesus and this book has been a crucial component to my doing this. Very pleased with my purchase and would highly recommend it to anyone who wants to deepen their knowledge on the Parables.

Superb study guide

Ron Rutter

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Joan Manwaring

Bought it for my Mum. Although in her 90's she said this gave her fresh insights into these well known but usually shallow studied pieces.

Great

H M Perry

An excellent book - lots of fascinating information.

Excellent book

Rev. Brian Stock .

Dr. Gooder does something very import in her latest book. She puts the Parables firmly in the 1st century world of Jesus-its social, political, economic and cultural life, then she makes those parables ask the serious question of how do we engage with them in our very different cultural life. It’s an informative, challenging book, and as one expects from Dr. Gooder, meticulous in presentation and with good scholarship to boot. No doubt you might wish to edit this. It would be a good book for group study...

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