Christians through the ages have marveled at the price-less wisdom and beauty of the parables of our Lord. And these masterpieces of divine literature are still relevant to life today.

Author Daniel R. Seagren carefully digs into Jesus "kingdom parables" (the be-ginnings and growth of Christianity) and his "people parables" (what Christians ought to be). Seagren's comments will bring under-standing of the parables, and will also help readers learn how to study and interpret them for themselves.

Parables is not written for ivory tower theologians, but for those who live and work on Main Street. Convinced that understanding biblical culture is necessary to under-stand biblical texts, the au-thor attempts throughout the book to "think Palestin-ian."

Christ's parables contain amazing wisdom, wisdom we as the people of God need in order to follow Christ faith-fully in our pressured world.

Daniel R. Seagren has pas-tored several churches, most recently Immanuel Church in Stockholm, Sweden. He has authored several books, in-cluding the Good Morning, Lord series.