July 16, 2006
Rev. Nancy Thellman offers these thoughts on our struggle to live and grow in this life's soil, which is sometimes more like a desert of shifting sands in want of a deep watering from fellow gardeners. As Jesus said, "let anyone who is thirsty come to me. And let the one who believes in me, drink." This sermon is based on Jeremiah 17:5-8, "...Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the LORD ...But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him. He will be like a tree transplanted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit" and 1 Corinthians 3:5-9, "...Neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor. For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building."