Sunday Sermon February 28, 2021
2020 was a challenging year, with all kinds of changing variables. There is an impulse to suspect those challenges mean something has changed about God. But this parable is first of all a reminder that whatever happens in life the sower is going to do what the sower has always done, scatter seed. The sower is not deficient in this story. He’s a constant. You know what else is not deficient, the seed. You see, in this story the sower and the seed—they’re good. But the soil, that’s what changes. So the question this parable raises for us is, Is my soil producing the harvest I know the seed is capable of?
