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A few weeks ago, my husband and I went on a weekend trip to Lake Tahoe. On the last day of our trip, we hiked through Van Sickle Bi-State Park, a ...
The parable’s metaphor about small things having a large impact encourages us to do our part, no matter how little it seems, ... “Faith the size of a mustard seed,” he said, ...
Perhaps the mustard is elaborated in Dijon, but the mustard seed, it turns out to everyone’s surprise, is imported from Canada and Ukraine. Apparently, Canada has seen a disastrous harvest of mustard ...
That’s the heart of the parable in today’s Gospel reading from Mark, comparing the kingdom of God to a tiny mustard seed. It’s a testament to small beginnings.
Today’s selection from Matthew 13 continues Jesus’ Parables Discourse. It contains two short parables—about a mustard seed and yeast—and a long parable with an allegorical interpretation ...
Most Christians are familiar with the parable that Jesus told about the mustard seed. The Gospel of Matthew recounts how Jesus healed a young man who his disciples were unable to heal.
Hear Then the Parable, a 1989 book by Bernard Brandon Scott, ... On the surface the parable of the mustard seed is an image of great growth coming from something small.
According to the "Parable of the Mustard Seed" in Matthew 13:31–32, ... then a mustard seed would be slightly more than 3 feet in diameter — or about the size of an extra-large fitness ball. ...
Jesus' Parable of the Mustard Seed, with its imagery of a seed growing into a plant big enough for birds to perch in, is often seen as foretelling the growth of Christianity.
The sermon topic on Sunday at Lookout Mountain Presbyterian Church will be "The Parable of the Mustard Seed and Yeast," with Matthew 13:31-33 as text.