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The Mustard Seed (opens the original)
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Today’s gospel reading brings us to the end of Jesus’ string of parables. I want to focus on the parable of the mustard seed this morning.In its most basic telling the parable is fairly straightforward. Something small, a seed, grows into something unexpectedly large. The lesson? “Don’t despise the day of small beginnings,” to quote the prophet Zechariah. On the surface it seems like a classic “don’t discount the small things” or “great things come from small and humble beginnings” kind of messa
What God Wants (opens the original)
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We have been in Iraq for five years now. Our life, as you might guess, looks very different in some ways. Yet in many ways, more than you might think, it looks very much like any other life. This includes our life with God which is marked by prayer, usually more inconsistent than we’d like to admit, acts of service, usually smaller and more normal than we’d once dreamed, and times of study, often more clouded and confused than filled with revelation. And, probably like you, our lives are often s
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