Sermon: No Soil Maps in the Kingdom of Heaven – Luke 8:4-15, Isaiah 55:9-13
May 11, 2021
A sower went out to sow. That is one crazy wasteful parable. Didn’t Jesus mean to say, “A sower went out to sow. He saw the path, and he didn’t sow any seed there. He saw the rocks and he didn’t sow any seed there. He saw the thistles and he didn’t sow any seed there. And then he saw the good soil, and that’s where he planted all his seeds!” And how much crazier this might have sounded to the people Jesus was telling this story to. In Jesus’ day, they sowed the grain by hand…
I am a Mennonite pastor currently teaching theology at Conrad Grebel University College in Waterloo, Ontario. I’ve served congregations in Ontario and most recently, Alberta.