PDF Title: The Parable of the Kicked Pinecone!
Author: Ron Christian
This book is part of a series.
- Book 1: Adventures In Biblical Faith!
- Book 2: Agony to Ecstasy!
- Book 3: Am I My Brother's Keeper?
- Book 4: And Jesus Taught Them Saying...
- Book 5: Are You an Authentic Person?
- Book 6: Becoming a Mature Christian
- Book 7: COME HOLY SPIRIT
- Book 8: Coming to Know God
- Book 9: Conquering the Enemies Within
- Book 10: Conversion and Consummation
- Book 11: Cultivating Christlike Character
- Book 12: Sin - Perversion of a Legitimate Desire!
- Book 13: Does the New Testament Teach Conditional Eternal Security?
- Book 14: Glimpses Into Reality - (As I Understand It)
- Book 15: Glimpses of Heaven's Glory
- Book 16: God For All Seasons
- Book 17: God's Descent to Planet Earth!
- Book 18: God's Rescue Plan for Lost Mankind!
- Book 19: Happy Healthy Home!
- Book 20: Here He Comes!
- Book 21: How Firm a Foundation!
- Book 22: How to Obtain and Maintain Eternal Salvation
- Book 23: How Wide Is God's Mercy?
- Book 24: In Memory
- Book 25: Jesus - The Great 'I Am'!
- Book 26: Law, Love, and Life!
- Book 27: Let Us Hold Fast
- Book 28: Living the Life of Joy!
- Book 29: Lost in Wonder, Love and Praise
- Book 30: Marks of a High Calling
- Book 31: Miscellaneous Words of Wisdom
- Book 32: Mountain Peaks of Salvation History
- Book 33: Our Father Who Art In Heaven
- Book 34: Prayers and Affirmations
- Book 35: Seeing God Through Nature!
- Book 36: Soaring Into the Heights!
- Book 37: Stair Steps Into Heaven's Glories!
- Book 38: The Balanced Life of Stewardship
- Book 39: The Marks of a Great Church
- Book 40: This Book
- Book 41: The Race of Life!
- Book 42: The Super Natural-Natural Life!
- Book 43: United in Christ!
- Book 44: We Have a God of Love!
- Book 45: Word Pictures for Dynamic Living!
Summary#
The Parable of the Kicked Pinecone! is a Christian devotional reflection by Ron Christian on suffering, resilience, repentance, and hope in Christ. Beginning with the image of a pinecone that remains upright after being kicked, the book proposes that believers can endure repeated hardship without losing their spiritual foundation when their lives are grounded in Jesus. Christian connects this image to the Apostle Paul, to persecuted Christians, and to ordinary people who face grief, illness, loss, temptation, injustice, and unanswered questions. The work maintains that suffering is not always easy to explain, but it can become redemptive when surrendered to God and shaped by the grace of Christ and the ministry of the Holy Spirit. It also emphasizes tears of repentance, confession of sin, the cleansing power of Christ’s blood, God’s compassion for sorrowing people, and the promise that God will finally defeat sin, suffering, death, and evil. Its central message is that Christians may be knocked down by life’s painful blows, but through Christ they can rise again with dignity, faith, endurance, and confidence in God’s final justice and eternal comfort.