Planning for the New Year

Take therefore no thought for the morrow, for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.  Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.  Matthew 6:30, KJV I quoted the King James Version of this famous saying of Jesus because it is the one I grew up with.  My mother often referred to it and that is how I best remember it. Our civilization depends on complex planning and management.  This may give us the illusion that we can control the…

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Messages from Agriculture

Living in Idaho, we can relate to Jesus’ agricultural parables - the sower and the seeds, the workers in the vineyard, the wheat and the weeds. The farming and gardening process holds lessons we can apply to other kingdom ministries. For example, I recently helped conduct interviews with the ministry partners of Trinity Lutheran, Nampa. We asked how the pandemic had impacted those ministries. Please watch this short interview with Paulette Blaseg and Sheila Anderson of Trinity Community Garden, Inc. https://youtu.be/FURdPYGpSQM The words…

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