The sower represents Christ and the seeds represent various categories of his followers: those who have little depth to their faith, those whose faith is destroyed by worldly enticements, and finally ...

Love is not a game, but some people treat it like one, playing with hearts as if they were disposable.” – Unknown ...

Feeling overwhelmed by the future? Octavia E. Butler’s fiction offers powerful lessons in resilience, change, and rebuilding ...

It reminds me of the Parable of the Sower. Jesus tells how many new shoots which sprang up from the seed sown were strangled by what the Bible calls “tares” (weeds). If you replace the letter r in ...

The sower originally was Jesus, who came teaching the word of God (the seed) and seeking a harvest. Today, anyone who shares God’s word with others is sowing the seed. Like seed, God’s word is “living ...

The sower in the parable does not worry about where the seed falls, which seems counterintuitive. “We’re used to counting and calculating things—and sometimes that’s necessary—but love ...

The parable of the sower "talks precisely about the dynamic of the word of God and the effects it produces. Indeed, every word of the Gospel is like a seed that is thrown on the ground of our life.

In “Parable of the Sower,” Octavia E. Butler writes about a brutal, mid-2020s Southern California ravaged by wildfire, earthquakes and an addictive pharmaceutical that fuels a destructive drug ...