SOW WHAT? The Parable of the Weeds and Wheat and its Missiological Implications
Jesus told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. 25 But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. 26 When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared. 27 “The owner’s servants came to him and said, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?’ 28 “‘An enemy did this,’ he replied. “The servants asked him, ‘Do you wa
The Smell and Sent of Mission
My wife and I had been away for over two weeks. Arriving back at our home, I opened the door only to be greeted by an utterly revolting smell. We’d managed, mistakenly, to turn off our freezer before we left and so all the meat had gone rotten. It was a very unpleasant task to clean out the freezer and then there was the challenge of getting rid of that obnoxious lingering smell. Recently my wife and I were away for another couple of weeks and before we departed we made absol