In the parables, the itinerant preacher Jesus meets us as an ingenious storyteller. He brings God near people. This is an entirely undogmatic way of speaking of God. Where speaking is impossible, one must tell stories. Parables focus on the earthly and point to the divine.
God's Power and Powerlessness (tags)
"The stock market conditioned destruction of jobs widens into a new atom bomb of our days through which the social and cultural peace in the one world is destroyed..Jesus told parables, lives as God's parable and enables believers to be God's parables.."
Happiness and the Self-Growing Seed (tags)
My theme is long-term happiness, a happiness that remains despite blows of fate. Jesus describes God's new world or happiness as an interaction event. Happiness arises in our trust that what we do will find an echo.