{"query": "A parable — Authority", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_23818bc5d8fe", "title": "A parable — Authority", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man asked a passing stranger where to build his house. The stranger pointed to a place by a river. The man built there. Soon the rains came, and the river rose, and the house was lost. The stranger "}, {"id": "card_n_8ecd78874f5b", "title": "A parable — Calling doubting", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A young man was told to speak to nations, and he answered: 'I cannot — I am only a youth.' The answer he received was not 'you are older than you think' but 'do not say you are a youth — go where I se"}, {"id": "card_n_effe4bf87816", "title": "A parable — Envy", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man kept a ledger of his neighbor's blessings. The ledger grew thick. His neighbor's house, his neighbor's wife, his neighbor's ox, his neighbor's days. He carried the ledger everywhere. He could no"}, {"id": "card_n_7fc1166cbd90", "title": "A parable — Suffering betrayal", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The psalmist wrote: it was not an enemy who reproached me — I could have borne that. It was you, my equal, my companion. The wound from a friend's hand goes deeper than the sword's, because the friend"}, {"id": "card_n_c98e4733373b", "title": "A parable — Tongue", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth. The tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity, set on fire of hell. One small spark in a dry forest in summer. The forest was a hundred years growing. Th"}, {"id": "card_n_e586205d665c", "title": "A parable — Least privilege", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A steward of a great house carried every key on his belt. A guest borrowed one key for one room, and when he was found in another room, the steward had no defense, for every door had been open. A wise"}, {"id": "card_n_4543b0454ea6", "title": "A parable — Envy neighbor", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A woman counted her neighbor's blessings each morning and her own each evening. By month's end she could recite her neighbor's list and had forgotten her own. The garden she walked through every day h"}, {"id": "card_n_df07989eae54", "title": "A parable — Phishing", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A sheep heard the shepherd's voice calling at the gate, and ran to open it. But the voice was a wolf in the shepherd's coat. None of the other sheep had seen the shepherd come; none had been asked. Th"}, {"id": "card_n_17ba1fbceeda", "title": "A parable — Unconformity", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A scribe wrote the history of a kingdom from the stones in its walls. He thought he had written all of it. But beneath the wall, between two layers of stone, was a missing age — a famine, a fault, a s"}, {"id": "card_n_de582c7ac9a4", "title": "A parable — Pride praise b", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man was praised for his work, and walked taller because of it. By evening he had grown to fit the praise. By morning the praise had moved to another, and he was small again. The praise had not added"}, {"id": "card_n_23ec117624fc", "title": "A parable — Loaded question", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man asked his neighbor: 'When did you stop cheating your workers?' His neighbor opened his mouth to answer, then closed it. To answer 'yesterday' was to confess. To answer 'never' was to confess dif"}, {"id": "card_n_e5c841c02410", "title": "A parable — Ltv", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man borrowed against his house until the debt reached the rooftop. When the wind came and shook the price down by a tenth, the rooftop was beneath the debt. He still lived in the house, but the hous"}, {"id": "card_n_a9b95338eb36", "title": "A parable — Marriage drift", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Two of you are stronger than one; but a threefold cord is not quickly broken. A marriage of two has spent its slack. A marriage with the Maker as the third strand can be pulled and pulled and not part"}, {"id": "card_n_182e7452566e", "title": "A parable — Strawman", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man heard his neighbor's voice through the wall and built in his mind a smaller man, a weaker man, easier to answer. He spent the evening defeating this smaller man. In the morning the neighbor knoc"}, {"id": "card_n_04502b1ebf95", "title": "A parable — Fear failure", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A servant was given one talent and feared losing it, so he buried it in the ground. When the master returned, the talent was safe — exactly as it had been given. The master called him wicked, not for "}, {"id": "card_n_61bf8457ea27", "title": "A parable — Suffering illness", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man prayed three times for the thorn to be removed. Each time the answer was no. The fourth time he did not ask, and learned: the thorn was the door through which grace had come. The strength had be"}, {"id": "card_n_7195b6d9f8f7", "title": "A parable — Generosity giving", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The rich men cast much money into the treasury, and the widow cast in two mites — which is a farthing. The Lord said: she has cast in more than they all. They gave of their abundance; she gave of her "}, {"id": "card_n_f8186323a970", "title": "A parable — Speech silence", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. The proverb is dry. It does not say the fool became wise. It only says he was"}, {"id": "card_n_c8454734e99f", "title": "A parable — Imposter", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A young scribe was given the seal of the king and told to write in his name. He wrote, but at every line he expected the king to come and say, 'You are not me.' The king never came. The seal had been "}, {"id": "card_n_152adfad178f", "title": "A parable — Pride status", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The Son of God, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God — but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was found in fashion as a man. T"}]}