Sermons from June 2024

I once saw a video of a gardener sharing about his method of planting carrots. Because their seeds are so small, he digs a little trench and then just sprinkles some seeds along it, knowing that not all of them are going to grow well and that he might have to thin them out if too many do start growing. He doesn’t really know how many carrots he will get this way, but if…

When I was in high school, my dad, grandpa, and I went on a salmon fishing trip over to Lake Michigan. Now, as a Minnesotan, I grew up spending many hours on boats every summer without ever having a problem. But, when we got on the water for the first night of fishing, we ended up getting caught in a large thunderstorm when we were about a mile offshore. I’m sure it…

My therapist once told me “If you’re thinking about everything that you should be doing while you are resting, then you aren’t actually resting.” While I didn’t particularly want to hear this, it made sense to me, and it continues to serve as a good reminder on my day off all these years later. Because, it’s really difficult to actually rest if my mind is racing in twenty…

When I was a kid, I was, let’s just say, creative! Which meant that I was often spending time in time-out for my attempts to push the boundaries on what I was allowed and not allowed to do. Usually, it was my attempt to find a loophole, but sometimes it was just because I flat out didn’t listen when I was told not to do something. Like when I would swim as many laps…