Dark Sayings

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”  Matthew 13:10  NASB Parables– “The Bible is familiar, life is strange.”[1]  Maybe we have it backwards.  Maybe the “dark sayings” are really how we live, and those verses in the Bible that seem so odd and impenetrable at first,…

Storytelling

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”Matthew 13:10 NASB Parables– Let’s consider the biblical approach of communication.  Why doesn’t the Bible just give us a list of rules or a well-organized theology?  Why does it sort of ramble around, throwing in parts of different genres of…