The first is that I have made a mistake. In one of my previous posts, I discussed the stained glass windows of our church and mentioned that four were lost in the fire. That's actually incorrect: we lost five. One window was broken to allow the firefighters to reach the fire, and the other four were destroyed by the fire itself. Those four were on the front side of the building, and the broken one was the last one on the side facing the parking lot. Thanks to Forrest for the help! :-)
My second topic is our recently retired pastor, Brother Don. Today was his last official Sunday as our preacher, and today he delivered his last sermon. He talked about his favorite verse, the Parable of the Sower, which is Matthew 13:1-23.
In the parable, the sower scattered his seeds in good soil, rocky soil, soil overgrown with weeds, and the hardened path. The seeds were scattered into four different places, and only the seeds from one place came up. The parable means that only a few people who receive the Word of God actually become Christians. Brother Don urged us to spread more seeds and call more people to The Lord, and to hope that, even though the sower only had a small number of crops that bore fruit, we can do better than the sower and touch more people's lives.
Sometimes, when years have passed by, we look back on what we have done and the things we left behind, and the memories seem like just a reflection of the real thing, like light shining through a glass. But the light comes from God, and the lives we've touched will stay with us forever.
Thanks, Brother Don, and Happy Retirement!
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