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 audience ...

More often, whenever we hear a sermon about the parable of the sower, we get the idea of how we may fail to receive the good but not how sometimes being the hard ground by the way side that prevents ...

I have compiled a collection of Jim Rohn’s classic works and lessons. One day, while going through it, I came across his interpretation of the Parable of the Sower and the Seed, from which he teaches ...

"And some fell into good soil and grew, and yielded a hundredfold. As he said this, he called out, ‘He who has ears to hear, let him hear’" (Luke 8:8). This Bible verse is from the Gospel of Luke, one ...

The parable of the sower is an 'allegory' about the Kingdom of God. In other words, it can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, everything in the story represents something else. It is a growth ...

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. Next ...

I have been preparing to walk across northern Spain on the Camino de Santiago, a journey that pilgrims have made for a thousand years. In order to break in my hiking boots, I’ve been walking through ...

You can get lost in a painting as sweepingly panoramic and vividly detailed as “Parable of the Sower.” Sixteenth-century European viewers who saw it when it was new would have recognized its subject ...

The Lord Jesus Christ told the parable of the sower from a boat. The parable appears in the thirteenth chapter of the Gospel according to Matthew and in parallel places in the Gospels according to ...