Sermons and Prophecy

​​ Whose Neighbor Am I? – The Parable of the Good Samaritan Date November 24, 2013 Scripture Reference  Luke 10:25-37 from the series  Parables for Winter'2013 Introduction Several years ago I was asked to present a seminar dealing with the How-To’s of youth ministry to the summer missionaries who were assigned to serve in Gujarat. Now, summer missionaries are college students from across the India. who give up their summer break to do ministry of all kinds. They do religious canvassing to help with new church starts. And many of them end up as youth ministers for the summer, working with small churches who can’t afford this staff position on a full time basis all year long. These college kids are almost always maturing Christians. They are exciting to be around because they take their faith very seriously. Each summer missionary attends a week long retreat at the beginning of the summer to help them get ready for their various ministry assignm...

​​ Of Seed And Soil – The Parable of The Sower Date  November 17, 2013 Scripture Reference  Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 from the series  Parables for Winter'2013 Introduction You may remember my mentioning a couple of weeks ago the annual trips our family made when I was a child to visit my Uncle in Bengaluru with a mile-long gravel driveway. Well, when I was a Second Year in University my Uncle passed away after a long illness. For some reason I couldn't attend his funeral but a few months later I left campus and drove to Bangalore do some work on my uncle's  grave. The graveyard where my  uncle was buried was full of red  clay… and grass wouldn't grow there very well so, if you wanted your loved one’s final resting place to look good you had to do a lot of careful gardening. This was okay from our perspective because my  another  uncle was of course raised on a farm and had also worked for the department of ...