Following is my version of a parable that illustrates them. The Pencil Maker said to the pencil, “Before I send you forth into the world, you must understand that, in order to be the best pencil ...

Editor’s note: This column by the late Bev Davis was originally published Sept 16, 2005. Davis passed away Aug. 1, 2010, of a sudden illness. × This page requires ...

Had we been in the crowd listening to Jesus, it might have struck us, as it obviously did the first disciples, that the person telling the parable was the treasure worth selling everything or the ...

If you read Russell Roberts's "The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity ... "No one can make a pencil." Nonsense, her students think—someone made that one.