Mobile Ed: NT252 Parables of Jesus (6 hour course - audio)
Overview
The parables of Jesus are colorful, startling, and often confusing. In this course, Dr. Dan Doriani explains this unique narrative type and walks you through proper interpretation of the parables, examining their images, themes, and applications for modern readers.
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Course Outline
Introduction
- Introducing the Speaker
Unit 1: The Purpose of Parables
- The Nature of Parables
- Searching for Parables in the New Testament with Search Fields
- A Modern-Day Parable
- How Parables Work
- The Development of Jesus’ Teaching
- Using a Custom Guide to View Translations of Parabolē
Unit 2: Parables Describing the Kingdom of God
- The Parable of the Sower: A Paradigm
- The Parable of the Sower: Its Meaning
- Opposition and Growth in the Kingdom of God
- Using the Bible Sense Lexicon to Find Different Referents of a Word
- The Value of the Kingdom of God
- Understanding Jesus’ Parables in Matthew 13
Unit 3: Parables about Life in the Kingdom of God
- Greatness in the Kingdom
- Studying the Kingdom with the Bible Word Study Guide
- Living in the Kingdom: Confrontation and Forgiveness
- Living in the Kingdom: Mercy
- Living in the Kingdom: Grace
- The Unfairness of Grace
- Jesus’ Gracious Call to the Kingdom
Unit 4: Parables of Confrontation
- Symbolic Acts and Words
- Taking Away the Kingdom of God
Unit 5: Parables of Instruction about the Future
- The Destruction of the Temple
- The Return of Jesus
- Creating and Searching Custom Theological Collections
Unit 6: Parables of Discipleship
- Loving Your Neighbor
- Comparing Parable Accounts with Gospel Harmonies
- Becoming a “Neighbor”
- Jesus’ Role in the Parable of the Good Samaritan
- A Parable about Prayer
- Being Confident in Prayer
- Using Sympathetic Highlighting to Identify and Search Greek Forms
- Prayer and the Unjust Judge
- A Parable about Money
- Storing Up Riches on Earth
- Being Rich toward God
- A Parable about Two Monks
- Lessons from the Parable about Two Monks
- The Parable of the Unjust Steward
- A Proper Perspective on Money
- Using the Power Lookup Tool to Find Lexical Entries on “Mammon”
- Parables about Friendship and Association
- Invitation to the Kingdom of God
- Membership in the Kingdom of God
- The Cost of Discipleship
- Rejoicing When the Lost Are Found
- The Parable of the Lost Sons
- Using the Cited By Tool to Look Up Background Information
- The Welcoming Father and the Older Son
- Finding Ourselves in the Parable of the Lost Sons
- The Pharisee and the Tax Collector
Unit 7: Parables of Repentance
- The Power of Parables
- The Theme of Repentance in Luke’s Gospel
- Finding Different Greek Words Used for “Repent”
- Repent While There Is Time
- A Change of Heart
Conclusion
- Living Jesus’ Stories
Product Details
- Title: NT252 The Parables of Jesus (audio)
- Instructor: Daniel M. Doriani
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Publication Date: 2015
- Product Type: Logos Mobile Education
- Resource Type: audio
- :Length: 6 hours
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Dr. Dan Doriani, vice president of strategic academic projects and professor of theology at Covenant Seminary, has extensive teaching and pastoral experience.
He served as assistant professor of biblical studies at Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania for five years, as solo pastor of Faith Presbyterian Church in Cumberland, Maryland for five years, as well as a variety of associate pastor, interim pastor, and stated supply roles. He has been involved in several planning and study committees at the presbytery level in both the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) and the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC). He was also chair of the PCA’s Theological Examining Committee from 1999 to 2000.
He has authored several books, including Getting the Message: A Plan for Interpreting and Applying the Bible(P&R, 1996), Putting the Truth to Work: The Theory and Practice of Biblical Application (P&R, 2001), The Life of a God-Made Man (Crossway, 2001), and commentaries on Matthew and 1 Peter in P&R Publishing’s Reformed Expository Commentaries series.
Dr. Doriani and his wife, Debbie, live in Chesterfield, Missouri, and have three grown daughters.