{"id":3636,"date":"2023-06-10T10:48:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T10:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/?p=3636"},"modified":"2023-06-10T10:48:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T10:48:53","slug":"tiny-seeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/?p=3636","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Seeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus says, \u201cThe Kingdom of Heaven is like a mustard seed\u201d and he then tells a story about a mustard seed which is very small is cast into the ground. Despite being very small, it grows and becomes larger than other plants and attracts the birds which come and build their nests in it. Jesus does not go into detail about this parable, but he does say before sharing this and other stories, \u201cAnyone who has ears to hear, let him hear!\u201d That means you have heard, so now try to understand!\u201d It is up to us to discover what the story reveals to us about the Kingdom of God present in our life. <strong>How do the seeds that we plant, grow the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Join us on Sunday as we continue to receive the Holy Spirit into our lives and ministry. We begin worship at 10 am.\u00a0 All are welcome either in-person or on-line and the bulletin can be found on this website in the virtual bulletin tab.\u00a0<strong>We look forward to seeing you!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/matthew13-31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3637 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/matthew13-31-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/matthew13-31-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/matthew13-31-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/matthew13-31-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/matthew13-31-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/matthew13-31.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus says, \u201cThe Kingdom of Heaven is like a mustard seed\u201d and he then tells a story about a mustard seed which is very small is cast into the ground. Despite being very small, it grows and becomes larger than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/?p=3636\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-save-the-date"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3641,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions\/3641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}