Jesus taught great truths about life and faith and morality - but not in abstractions. Instead, he told interesting stories about everyday people like us, in ordinary settings, such as we know -parents and their children, people at work, pray-ing, attending weddings, going down the highway, or at a dinner party. In his incomparable stories Jesus helps us understand how to live wisely and well. It is those immortal stories, and their meaning for our lives, which I ask you to consider in the next chapters, beginning today."