Sermon Trinity 4
Dear Lord, grant us patience for today to navigate any challenges we encounter as your Church. With You by our side, nothing is impossible. We pray for Your Holy Spirit to fill us with grace and patience, so we may end the day with our heads held high. We entrust all to You, Lord. Amen. (https://www.crosswalk.com/faith/prayer/10-prayers-for-patience.html#google_vignette) In today’s gospel reading we encounter two parables on the subject of the seed being put together. If you still recall, last year I preached on the parable of the Mustard Seed and this year I am focusing on the first parable of the; Growing Seed. The picture we get in this parable is of a farmer who has sown the seed and then does nothing to it until harvest time. In our contemporary world, that will be a bad example of what is expected in farming. Instead, he sleeps and wakes up night and day as if nothing has happened, and he does not bother about the seed which he has sown on the ground. If you analyze Jesus’