Jesus’ eight parables in Matthew 13 dominated my thoughts and writings over the last year. Mostly short one- or two-sentence ...

In 1992, Brigham Young University professor Stephen Robinson invented one of the most beloved metaphors in Mormonism. His book “Believing Christ” became a sensation in The Church of Jesus Christ of ...

In Matthew 13, a chapter full of parables, Jesus tells the parable of the Sower of the seed. It is a story of a farmer, scattering seed which fell upon four different types of soil; but only one soil ...

"Jesus got into a boat and sat down, and the whole crowd stood along the shore” (Matt 13:2). Jer 1:1, 4-10; Mt 13:1-9 The setting of Jesus’ parables in Matthew 13 is itself a parable. Jesus chooses as ...

The Gospel’s reading of the parables of the Kingdom of Heaven in Matthew 13, begun two weeks ago, ends today. We’ve heard the parables of the sower and seed, of the wheat and weeds, and of the little ...