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 [...]

In Mark 4:26-29, Jesus compares the kingdom of God to a man who scatters seed that grows mysteriously on its own—first stalk, then head, then full grain—showing that we sow in faith without knowing how growth happens, trusting God's timing and [...]

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 [...]