Sentences with phrase «tiny mustard seed»

Think of these parables: the seed falling among good soil and bad soil; a tiny mustard seed becoming the largest tree; the landowner who paid the workers who laboured an hour the same wage as those working a full day; the foolish and wise builders constructing on rock and sand; the end times judgement of the sheep and the goats — and so on.

The Kingdom is like a tiny mustard seed, Jesus said, that grows into an enormous tree with branches wide and strong enough to make a home for all the birds.

Pardon my borrowing of the famous parable, but the religion that started as a tiny mustard seed of love and compassion has really blossomed into a hideous monstrosity.

Yes, the tiny mustard seed grows into a large tree so that even the birds can sit in its branches, but if we ever say our particular church or ministry is «the large tree» we have completely misunderstood what Jesus was saying.

Jesus constantly modeled that the small things, the unimportant people, the little children, the cup of cold water, the tiny mustard seed, the one act of faith, the shameful, the foolish, and the insignificant,... these are the things that mattered to God and where God was most at work.

The tiny mustard seed has grown into a giant tree!»

Even Jesus» parable of the tiny mustard seed shows this.

The parable of the mustard seed in verses 30 - 32 has two points: (1) just as the tiny mustard seed can grow (in the Mediterranean area) into a fairly tall tree, so the humble start of the kingdom of God does not preclude a victorious ending; (2) the kingdom is now present, and all nations and peoples («birds of the air» was a phrase used by the rabbis to mean all people, including Gentiles) may now partake of it.

A single sponsorship is like a tiny mustard seed that when it grows, becomes a tree in which the birds can come and perch in its branches.

When children, like you, or adults begin to love Jesus, their love is like a tiny mustard seed before it is planted in the ground.