Imago Dei Community Sermons

Jesus talks about the Kingdom of God in multi-faceted ways. It is dynamic. It is living. It is experiential. It is a reality! Those of us that constantly ask, “how much longer?” are missing the current reality of the Kingdom. Jesus teaches that the Kingdom of God starts small…like a seed. So often we are looking for the big things, because small seems insignificant. But it is precisely here, in the seemingly insignificant areas of our life, that the Kingdom of God is breaking in! So often, we are caught looking the other way…waiting for the bigger and better reality. In addition to starting small, another reality of “Kingdom Seeds” is that they have to die. This is the mess of the Kingdom. In order for a flower to become beautiful, it must go through a process of dying. The seed dies, goes into the ground with decomposing dirt (which is a larger dying process) and eventually comes to new life that is beautiful. It’s interesting to note that God grows this new life. We cannot grow a plant, we ca