Religion & Spirituality
The Parables of the Growing Seed and the Mustard Seed Third Sunday After Pentecost, 06/13/2021 Online Links: https://linktr.ee/PisgahLutheran Online Donations: https://www.PisgahGives.com First Reading: Ezekiel 17 : 22 - 24 Second: 2 Corinthians 5 : 6 - 17 Gospel: Mark 4 : 26 - 34 (https://tinyurl.com/ypms796f) Different ways to give: 1. Mail your offering or drop off at the church. 2. Call church office (803-359-2223) and we will pick it up. 3. Online at www.PisgahGives.com. Gospel Reading of Mark 4 : 26 - 34 (NRSV) THE PARABLE OF THE GROWING SEED 26 He also said, “The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, 27 and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. 28 The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. 29 But when the grain is ripe, at once he goes in with his sickle, because the harvest has come.” THE PARABLE OF THE MUSTARD SEED 30 He also said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable will we use for it? 31 It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; 32 yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.” THE USE OF PARABLES 33 With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it; 34 he did not speak to them except in parables, but he explained everything in private to his disciples. ---------- Pastor Stephen Mims Pisgah Lutheran Church 1350 Pisgah Church Rd, Lexington, SC 29072 www.pisgahlutheran.org @pisgahlutheran https://linktr.ee/pisgahlutheran 803-359-2223 We Share Our Gifts to Show God's Love ---------- THE LORD’S PRAYER Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever. Amen.