Can there be anything more French than Dijon mustard? Perhaps the mustard is elaborated in Dijon, but the mustard seed, it turns out to everyone’s surprise, is imported from Canada and Ukraine.

But there is another story happening in Catholic communities across the world — a story that we in the Catholic Church of the Beatitudes know very well: the story of the mustard seed.

When his followers asked Jesus to increase their faith, he told them the parable of the mustard seed. Though it was the smallest of seeds, once sown the mustard plant sprang up and spread rapidly.

According to the "Parable of the Mustard Seed" in Matthew 13:31–32, mustard seeds are the smallest in the plant kingdom. Right? Wrong.

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.

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. Arguably the greatest ...

image of a mustard seed. 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 ...

It contains two short parables—about a mustard seed and yeast—and a long parable with an allegorical interpretation—about the wheat and the weeds.

On the surface the parable of the mustard seed is an image of great growth coming from something small. The parable of the yeast offers the same message.

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.