Matthew 13:31-33,44-52

Our lesson starts with another short story about sowing seeds and receiving truly bounteous rewards.

The parables of Jesus are often paradoxical.  A planted seed must die before it produces ten fold.  The fish net often empty, must be thrown over one more time so that it can be brought up with a yield of a large catch of varied fish.

Have you ever seen a sight on TV of a commercial fisherman reeling in a net full of slithery yet shining sea life?  Then the fisherman leans down and throws overboard trash fish and the undesirable.  Every cast of a modern deep sea fisherman will reap some reward, but among the valuable will be the waste.

The fisherman does not stop fishing when his efforts are only partially successful. Jesus did not despair when many of the Jews did not accept him and the Pharisees and Sadducees sought to have him killed.

Let's join him to witness, or sow, or fish for men.

 SUMMER WORSHIP SCHEDULE

10:00 AM Hymns