In their pride, they believed that the vineyard and wine belonged to them.
Tag: harvest
We affirm our identity as farmers and shepherds, as stewards and nurturers, not mercenaries or brawlers. We are here: saved and being sanctified for the Kingdom purpose of growing something good. And that good begins in us. We start in the four small chambers in our own chest and then we branch out from there. We are asked to approach this fallen firmament with an agrarian mindset: we are planters not combatants.
For Joseph, there were a lot of years of pain and questioned purpose between Canaan’s pit and Egypt’s pinnacle.
There was something beautiful and biblical about that heirloom cotton field.
Farm country truths have spiritual application as well: everybody plants something and you get what you plant.
We spent eight hours with dear friends yesterday and the bulk of our discussion gathered around the subject of being hurt at church. Why is God’s house – a place of healing – also often a place of deep wounding? I opened my Bible this…