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. Yeast disappears in the dough but has a ...

In the earlier post, Your Favorite Parable ... The Mustard Seed (Mark 4:30-32): The Kingdom of God is like a mustard seed? A seed that grows into a shrub? Sure, it’s a big shrub, fine, but ...

Find today’s readings here. “To what shall we compare the Kingdom of God, or what parable can we use for it? It is like a mustard seed that, when it is sown in the ground, is the smallest of ...

This week, we’ll hear the Parable ... doing with the seed of God’s Word — his Gospel — sown in you? Are you putting down roots? Today’s Gospel has been illustrated in art many times.

Bearing out what Jesus said, here is a bird perching on a mustard plant that has grown to a great size from a tiny seed, symbolizing the value of faith. (Courtesy Photo) Jesus told the Parables of ...

On first reading, the two parables in today's Gospel text seem to make less and less sense. In the first, a sower seems to leave the seed to fend for itself. In the second, a tiny mustard seed becomes ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Mark’s Gentile readers would have taken great comfort and hope from this parable.