... hand.24 2 -- Christ himself was fantastic with his hair every whichway and smelling of fish and looking probably a lot more like Groucho Marx than like Billy Budd as he stood there with his ugly death already thick as flies about him and said to raise our ... and a preacher will have to determine how best to put the message across. "Our goal is not to tell good stories," advises Richard Jensen. "Our goal is to communicate the biblical story through our use of story."30 Some practical guidelines in the use of ...
... conversion. He speaks of a vision: "I saw all my former heroes paraded before my eyes--Fidel Castro, Mao Tse-tung, Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, passing in review--each one appearing for a moment of time, and then dropping out of sight, like fallen heroes. ... our lives to Jesus and allow him to work his life-changing purpose within. Let me tell you about something that Dr. Richard Dawson learned serving in the British Army during World War I. Dawson spent some time in a brutal Japanese prison camp. Daily, ...
... Americans were stunned to read of the unrestrained filthiness of language used in the Oval Office by President Richard Nixon and his associates. Nixon’s every sentence seemed soiled with both profanities and obscenities of the rawest ... In the book he dismissed religion as an “opiate for the masses” which the world is better off without. The man’s name was Karl Marx and the system was, of course, Communism. (4) Who could blame him for his anger and intense bitterness? He watched his father give up his ...
Why do children love this story so much? Tom Wright offered one explanation: “Sunday schools love Zacchaeus. At least they love to act out his story and sing about him. The little man who climbs up a tree to see Jesus provides one of the most vivid short stories in the Bible. Children can identify with Zacchaeus; they often find themselves at the back of a crowd and can’t see what’s going on. Many adults too, can identify with, they like to get closer to Jesus, but find it embarrassing to do so, and ...
