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Title: The Parables of Jesus Made Simple

Subtitle: Updated and Expanded Edition

Author: Matthew Robert Payne

Narrator: Steven A. Gannett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-12-17

Publisher: Revival Waves of Glory Books & Publishing

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

You can live for many years and sit through many sermons without ever really coming to an in-depth understanding of the parables of Jesus. If you want to serve and obey Jesus, you should endeavor to understand the fundamentals of these teachings of Jesus.

In this, his 27th book, Matthew Robert Payne unpacks the parables for today and shows how you can live the life that Jesus promoted when he was on earth. This is the updated and expanded edition of the book he originally published in 2011.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Very very good. The need to know about our Brother Jesus

Informs, Explains and Inspires!

I have read many books by author Matthew Robert Payne. In each one he blesses the reader with his detailed honesty and passion for the Lord. I love this book because it is a practical guide to studying the parables that our Lord taught when he was here on earth preaching to the multitudes with His disciples. Matthew brings a refreshing approach by conveying personal accounts of his own struggles and shares finding the Lord through each one. The parables are laid out very plainly and explained in laymen terms making sometimes complicated subject matter wonderfully simplified. It is an excellent in-depth look in an uncomplicated way.

But, be prepared to be challenged with a call to duty and to also look introspectively at your own Christian walk as you read each chapter. Are we as Christians emulating Jesus and displaying His heart to the world and actually taking action do to what we can do? It's a book that informs, explains and inspires what a winning trifecta! I enjoyed this book tremendously and am proud to have this as an addition to my library.

This book delivers on its title

One thing that I really love about this book, is Matthew Robert Payneâs brutal honesty and candor. I have sat through many sermons on earth, and heard many people speak on the parables but I am not sure anyone has presented them with such depth and wisdom. Mr Payneâs honest, and simple approach to them, make them very simple to understand. He gives you permission not to take his word for what he is saying but in a kind and heartfelt way simply offers his own personal and Holy Spirit led insights in to the age old stories that Jesus told.

I do want to warn you however about two things. If you are used to teachers who teach doctrine without personal analogies to open up the subject, and you like the word taught that way, you are going to really have to adapt to a new way of learning with the author. He is very open about his sin life, and personal struggles and this way of teaching made the author very endearing to me.

The second warning I have to say is that the author is very passionate about us not being hearers of the word only and not doers. if you are looking to read a book that will make you feel good about not practicing your faith through action, this is not the book for you. You get a sense that Mr. Payne is very active in giving to the homeless and being Christ everywhere that he goes.

In summary, I have to say that this is by far the best teaching I have ever heard on the parables and it is leading me to totally rethink how I live my Christian life in practice. I give it 5 stars.

Padded Discussion of the Parables

Payne takes the parables Jesus told and discusses them, but he tends to ramble off-topic a lot, although his basic theology is sound.