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The Bible says Jesus is our Savior, not just our example; that he is actively involved now in our salvation. So, do you feel you really know Jesus as a living, active Savior in your own personal life?

What would it have been like to actually sit and listen to Jesus’ preaching? We know from the New Testament record that Jesus liked to tell stories, but these stories were really much more than nice little tales. They were filled with images and warnings drawn from the Old Testament. We call these stories “parables.” In this book it will be our pleasure to sit with these people of Jesus’ day and to listen carefully to Jesus’ words. I hope the reader will see that these lessons were not just for the people of his day.

“Can you see the picture that is being put before us?” I asked the young man studying the Bible with me. Being able to understand words is one thing, but to see the picture God is painting is altogether another dimension. If you are a regular Bible reader, you will have read the early chapters of Genesis many times over the years, probably at times feeling perplexed, and at other times excited and encouraged. So much of what we read in early Genesis is foundational to the rest of the Bible. We have the beginning of God’s great creative work of the heavens and the earth, the beginning ...