Today we have our old familiar friend, the Parable of the Sower, as our Gospel lesson. The seed in our parable today is sown everywhere! The one who has been called to sow the Word in the world made it a point to sow the seed in every kind of soil. Yet isn’t that what […]
Today we have an interesting text for our Gospel lesson. In it we hear the apostles ask Jesus to increase their faith. This at first does not seem like a terrible request, for it is not as if they are asking Jesus to increase their income or their power, but rather their faith!
With what can we compare the Kingdom or God? Jesus asks, then uses little parables about seeds to explain. This sermon looks at our imagination of kingdom, and the reign of God alternative. Also,there is an illustration of a “preschool cookbook” that is analogous to the terse yet profound nature of the kingdom parables. Those […]
During this Lenten season we journey with Jesus on the way to the cross. And after Jesus died his body was placed in the tomb, like a grain of wheat into the earth. But then, as we all know, three days later Jesus arose, just as surely as a grain of wheat sprouts and grows. […]