Pastor Jim Smith brings a seed packet to the pulpit and turns the parable of the sower from a diagnosis into a question he has asked students for seventeen years:…
James 1:22-25 and the man who looks in the mirror and forgets what he saw. Be doers of the word, not hearers who deceive themselves.
James 1:5-8 — if any of you lacks wisdom, ask. The double-minded man, and what it means to ask without wavering.
Luke 24:28-35 and the moment of recognition at the breaking of bread — did not our hearts burn within us while he opened the Scriptures?
The road to Emmaus: two people walking away from Jerusalem with their hopes spent, joined by someone they do not recognise.
John 21:20-25. Forty days with Jesus, then ten more waiting — the gap before Pentecost, and what leaning and lingering are for.