Earthly Stories with Spiritual Meaning: Spiritual Lessons Learned from Real Life Events

One of the primary teaching methods of Jesus, the master teacher, was His use of parables. Jesus' parables were simply short stories that were true to life and taught valuable spiritual truths to His listeners. Similar to how Jesus used parables, this book uses nostalgic and often humorous events from the author's own life to illustrate and explain some valuable spiritual truths from the Holy Scripture. If we are paying attention, life events can certainly teach us a whole lot about our omnipotent God. Then if we will allow God to communicate with us through his Holy Scripture, we will learn all we need to know about how to live an abundant life now and prepare for eternal life in the world to come.

The author has done his share of preaching over the last fifty years. Yet much more often than not, he has been the one in the pew gleaning valuable knowledge from preachers and teachers. And when you add his secular engineering background and love of humor, this mixture of experiences has given the author a unique perspective on the truth in God's Word, which will be evident in this book.

His stated purpose for writing this book is both to entertain and spiritually uplift his readers. He is hopeful that it will increase the faith of his readers and inspire them to live holy lives as we wait anxiously for our Lord's return.