Table of Contents
Introduction xi
Chapter 1 Why Do You Speak to Them in Parables? 1
Chapter 2 Hearts Ready to Receive the Word 11
Chapter 3 The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness 25
Chapter 4 And Who Is My Neighbor? 35
Chapter 5 Even If One Should Rise from the Dead 47
Chapter 6 Redemption, Rejoicing, and Rejection in Luke 15 61
Chapter 7 What Will He Do to Those Tenants? 79
Chapter 8 Unworthy Guests 95
Chapter 9 When the Son of Man Comes, Will He Find Faith on Earth? 105
Chapter 10 The Exalted Humbled and the Humble Exalted 115
Chapter 11 The Shrewd Sons of This Age 131
Chapter 12 Miserly Fairness Versus Extravagant Grace 141
Chapter 13 Well Done, Good and Faithful Servant 151
Chapter 14 So Also My Heavenly Father Will Do to You 161
Chapter 15 The Kingdom of Heaven Is Like This 173
Chapter 16 When the Son of Man Comes in His Glory 193
Chapter 17 You Know Neither the Day Nor the Hour 203
Acknowledgments 215
Notes 219
About the Author 221