Something Isn’t Kosher

A Church article with View Comments posted 25 June 2009.
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Occasion: Pentecost 2, Year B
Text: Ezekiel 17.22-24, Mark 4.26-34

This sermon was preached at Saint Andrew’s Lutheran Church, Columbia, MO on 13-14 June 2009.

For the last couple of years, Jennifer and I have been dreaming about having a house of our own. We dream about what it would be like to build our own house – sometimes we think big, more often we dream about a really tiny house that has everything built-in and packed in tightly. But no matter where we dream of being, no matter what kind of house or family we envision, one thing always stays the same – we’re going to have a garden. We’ll grow food and flowers, perhaps keeping a patch of the lawn for wild grasses – heck, with any luck, there won’t be much of a lawn to mow at all. I say that because, in all seriousness, as much as I want Jennifer to have the garden that she dreams of, I harbor a terrible secret in my heart: I hate yard work.

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