Happy Father’s Day! Come on, happy Father’s Day! Yes, indeed! While the offering bags are being passed, I’m going to read an oldie but a goodie. Anyone ready for an oldie but a goodie? A lawyer and an elderly gentleman are sitting next to each other [...]

Mark 4:26, "He also said, This is what the kingdom of God is like: a man scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows though he does not know how. All by itself, the soil produces [...]

In the Parable of the Sower, Jesus describes four types of hearers: those whose seed is stolen by the devil, those on rocky ground who receive emotionally but lack root and fall away under persecution, those among thorns choked by deceitful riches [...]