Jesus' Son: Stories Denis Johnson
Publisher: Harper Perennial

Jesus Stories: The Parable of the Two Sons. This is the invitation that turns people away from Jesus. What main points stand out to you in this story? This is one of Luke's “parable-stories”; he means to suggest that this is true discipleship: asking Jesus to cure our blindness so that we can follow him on the way of the cross. This is part two of my "Stories from Afghanistan" series. How would you describe the older son and the younger son? What are their similarities and differences? The eleven sections of Jesus’ Son are relentless. Let's read the third of these stories Jesus told - the lost son. It is more commonly referred to as the story of the prodigal son, though the word prodigal is not found in Scripture. There was nothing of his I wanted in particular. 11 Jesus continued: “There was a man who had two sons. Source of the story that Jesus took Peter, James, and John and went up on a high mountain, and was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and met with Moses and Elijah and was heard a voice coming out of the cloud, saying, "This is my beloved son, in whom Mat 17:5 While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them; and suddenly a voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. The parable of the prodigal son is one of the most well-known stories of Jesus. Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son: Stories (1992), for me, is as close to being high on dope that one can become from merely ingesting words and sentences and paragraphs through one's eyes and, if read aloud, ears. A father finds a lost son and has a party. Such a proof is however far from being in their hands, for none but Jesus (as)son of Mary, was ever called the Shahzada-Nabi or prince prophet. Stories from Afghanistan: When God Ran--Jesus, the Prodigal Son, and Unexpected Common Ground in a Kabul Classroom. 31 Then he took the twelve aside and said to them, 'See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written about the Son of Man by the prophets will be accomplished. A Third Time Jesus Foretells His Death and Resurrection.