Returning to the fray!
I have really missed posting on the blog over the last 3 months or so. In that time I have moved house & workplace, and had a break from preaching. However I will soon be back in the saddle (so to speak), beginning with a harvest service on October 6th. Also, we have started 'office prayers' each week, where we have been looking at the lectionary gospel reading for the coming Sunday, so I'm getting back into the habit of looking at the lectionary, rather than simply attending worship and finding out what the readings are! In the URC prayer handbook for this coming Sunday there were 'Harvest' readings, so I think I'll start with that - Mark 4: 1-9 - the parable of the sower. Except it isn't, is it, it's not just about the sower. Of course if the seed had stayed in the bag there would be no harvest, so the sower plays a part - but the real story comes when the sower has done his bit & gone home. It's circumstances that produces the differe...