The Parable of the Sower
Today we're going to continue the sermon series "The Divine Storyteller." This series is focused on a rethinking of some of the more challenging parables or stories that Jesus told. Whether it was a city high on a hill, two women grinding grain or---as we'll see today--a man planting seeds in a field, Jesus knew how to draw his audience in to his stories by using everyday, common and ordinary things that he could see around him to teach deep and abiding spiritual truths about the kingdom of God. This week we're going to be exploring a parable that is fairly well-known but in many ways underestimated in common Christian culture: The Parable of The Sower. This parable truly causes us to have to confront the truth about who we really are. In fact, before we dig into the text today, let me ask you a question. How would you want to be remembered after you die? As you think you are or as you really are ? Last week I rea...