Starting today and the following two Sundays, the Gospel will focus on Jesus’ parables of the Kingdom of Heaven, found in Matthew 13. This week, we’ll hear the Parable of the Sower and Seeds.

The Parable of the Sower from the Gospel of Luke in the Bible shows that while not everyone may accept faith messages, sometimes the "seed" will land on good soil and produce fruit.

In Matthew 13, a chapter full of parables, Jesus tells the parable of the Sower of the seed. It is a story of a farmer, scattering seed which fell upon four different types of soil; ...

Jesus often spoke in parables, or short stories with many layers of meanings. Perhaps one of the most famous parables is the story of the sower who goes out and indiscriminately sows seed. Some ...

So many times what we see, or our feelings, gets in the way of what God is directing us to do. In the 13th chapter of Matthew, we find the parable of the sower. In this parable we find that some ...

The seed, the sower and the Source: Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23. When a seed is snapped up by a bird of the air, the seed’s journey isn’t necessarily over. by Bradley E. Schmeling in the July 1, 2008 issue.

This is Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh’s depiction of a sower like the one in Jesus’ Parable of the Sower. van Gogh lived from 1853-90. (Courtesy Photo) Using agricultural language because his ...

It’s the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time and today’s gospel reading is about the Parable of the Sower. Our Lord Jesus Christ often taught his disciples in parables for various reasons because ...

Jesus spoke in parables to the people who gathered to listen to his teachings. The parables Jesus told help us to understand God’s word. In Mark chapter 4 it tells us that the seed to be sown is ...

The Sower and the Seed: My Favourite Parable. The enigmatic stories (parables) about First Century life invite us to think and pray about God, ourselves, and the way we relate to each other.