The Shade Tree – Mark 4:26-34

If you’ve ever done any gardening, it’s quite an enjoyable and amazing experience.  In the past, we’ve planted a vegetable garden in our yard in the section that we called our “ugly area.”  In that area, we tilled the ground, then placed the seeds, then covered up the seeds with earth and carefully watered them.  We planted things like tomatoes, carrots, green beans, peas, and cucumbers.  

It didn’t look like much at first.  Just a slightly cleaned-up “ugly area.”  But then, after a couple of...