First Reading: Ezekiel 17: 22–24 (I will Raise the Trees); Second Reading: 2 Corinthians 5: 6–10 (We Trust); Gospel: Mark 4: 26–34 (The Seed Germinates)
Adults: Do I allow God to be in my life or do I try to control my spiritual development without him?
Children: What problems do I need to put into God’s hands?
Key Passage Yet when [the mustard seed] 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. (Mark 4:32)
Adult: What is the “good soil” that has allowed your faith to grow like the mustard seed and provide shelter for others?
Child: How do you help your faith grow like the mustard seed?
“With many such parables he spoke the word to them as they were able to understand it.”
How many Scriptural parables can you recall? What about stories with a lesson that either of your parents told you or that you have told others? What makes these stories/parables easy to understand? What truths have been conveyed to you by parable? Does a parable make it easier to accept the truth and therefore make it easier to understand?
(from cl Weekly)
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