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Podcast: The Word On The Street
Episode: JESUS' LIFE: His Parables
Description: When Jesus taught the crowds he often told them stories about every day life. These stories had a deeper, heavenly, spiritual meaning and are called Parables. This episode is a great introduction to what parables are and why Jesus used them in his teaching.
And hundreds of year before Jesus was even born, Matthew remembers that a prophet wrote about parables:
Jesus used stories when he spoke to the people. In fact, he did not tell them anything without using stories.
35 So God’s promise came true, just as the prophet[b] had said,
“I will use stories
 to speak my mess...