Planting, Watering, and Tending for Life and Growth from God
February 16, 2020
The lectionary scriptures for today make me grateful to live under the ‘New Testament’ way of faith — sort of. There is much focus on rule-following, life-and-death, and not-messing-up from the Old Testament passages, along with some compelling symbolism and imagery around land, fire, and water.
The gospel message this week is a tough one for me, where Jesus sets the bar even higher for how we should behave and the lengths we should be willing to go to keep ourselves in line — like getting rid of body parts that cause us to stumble and really harsh rules around marriage and divorce — so I’m not going there this morning…