Good Soil

A dear friend of mine will be consecrated as a Lutheran deaconess this weekend. She has had to wait several months for her service to be rescheduled and it will look very different from her original plans. But we know God is faithful and that God continues to call us regardless of what is going on in the world around us and no matter how long it takes us to make things “official.”One of her texts for the service is the Parable of…

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Crazy to Try

https://youtu.be/T0wWZ6tgGKQ MATTHEW 10:40-42 As for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it— that doesn’t mean the one who figures out the parable, because not even the disciples could do that; Jesus had to take them aside and explain everything, pass them the answers in the class or they’d have never passed the course. No, the one who hears the word and understands it is not the one with the brains to figure God…

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