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The Parables of Jesus: Complete List and Guide (1 of 26)
Most teaching treats a parable as a container: find the point, take it out, throw the story away. Kenneth Bailey argues the mechanism runs the other way, and that a parable is closer to a house you are invited to move into. That is what this series runs on, and the index of all twenty-six posts is further down.
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The Gate That Was Never There
You have heard the sermon: a low postern gate in Jerusalem's wall called the Eye of the Needle, where a camel could squeeze through if you unloaded it and got it on its knees. There was no such gate. The claim shows up a thousand years after Jesus said the words, and tracing it turned out to be more interesting than debunking it.
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What Is a King? Will You Bow Now? (6 of 6)
Five sections of preparation, one question. We are between the two stages right now. The cross is past. The conquering King is future. The position you take now is the position you keep.
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What Is a King? The Witness and the Unveiling (5 of 6)
You are responsible for the witness. You are not responsible for the unveiling. The weight modern American Christianity transfers onto the witness was never Scripture's to give.
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The Chosen: Biblical vs. Fictional Characters
The Chosen has reached more people with the biblical narrative than most films in a generation. A working inventory of which characters come from Scripture and which were invented for the screen.
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What Is a King? The Counterfeit King (4 of 6)
The serpent does not need to convince you the gospel is false. That is too obvious. What he can do is fake the recognition just well enough that you bow to something that looks almost right.
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What Is a King? The Return of the King (3 of 6)
The *imago Dei* still knows what kingship looks like, even after the world has stripped every reference for it from daily life. There is one scene in cinema that proves it every time.
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What Is a King? Slave to Christ (2 of 6)
Paul opens Romans with a self-description 2026 American ears cannot hear correctly. *Doulos Christou*, slave of Christ. The softening costs more than translators know.
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