Everyone loves a good story and a good storyteller.

But there is no storyteller like the Lord Jesus,

and there are no greater stories told than the ones Jesus shared.

In this study, spiritual stories, we consider the parables Jesus told and their

application to us. These are truly the greatest stories ever told, and the Lord has something

he wants to say to you through them. Let's join Scott Pauley now.

Men are the worst at this.

At least let me testify today as a husband.

We lose things right in plain sight, right at home, right in the house.

We know it's there somewhere.

We just can't find it.

And so what do we need? We need our wives to come and help us. How many times I've said to Tammy, can you help me try to find this? And she'll walk right to it, put her hand on it. It was there all along.

But it was lost to me. There's nothing more frustrating than knowing that something is there, but not knowing where it is. And there's nothing more frustrating than knowing that something is there but not knowing where it is and there's

nothing more wonderful than when it is discovered and today we're going to a house we're going to a

house with a woman who has lost something that is very precious to her she's lost a coin now

we have no idea what that coin was worth but we know it was worth something to her that She's lost a coin. Now, we have no idea what that coin was worth, but we know it was worth

something to her. That's what's important. I don't know if it was priceless, but I know it was

precious. We're not given the value of the coin. Some people have imagined, because it was only one

coin, that it was one of the marriage coins from her headdress.

In that particular day, an ancient custom, when a young woman was married,

she was given a beautiful headdress with ten coins on it that represented enduring love.

And some people have surmised because it was just one coin that maybe one of them had fallen out.

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