{"id":1433,"date":"2026-07-26T19:54:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T18:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2026-07-26T19:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T18:56:11","slug":"the-parables-of-the-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2026\/07\/26\/the-parables-of-the-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"The Parables Of The Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. Given by our reader Richard Palmer, recorded on the 26th July 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/260726\" width=\"500\" height=\"30\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Download Mp3&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/260726\/260726.mp3\">HERE!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sermon starts at 1:30<\/p>\n\n\n\n<font color=\"red\">Matthew 13 v 31-35\n<br><br>\nThe Parables of the Mustard Seed and the Yeast<\/font>\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>31<\/b><\/font> He told them another parable: \u201cThe kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>32<\/b><\/font> Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds come and perch in its branches.\u201d\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>33<\/b><\/font> He told them still another parable: \u201cThe kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds of flour until it worked all through the dough.\u201d\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>34<\/b><\/font> Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; he did not say anything to them without using a parable. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>35<\/b><\/font> So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet:\n<br><br>\n\u201cI will open my mouth in parables,<br>\n   &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world.\u201d\n<br><br>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. Given by our reader Richard Palmer, recorded on the 26th July 2026. Download Mp3&nbsp;HERE! Sermon starts at 1:30 Matthew 13 v 31-35 The Parables of the Mustard Seed and the Yeast 31 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2026\/07\/26\/the-parables-of-the-kingdom\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1435,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions\/1435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}