Mark's sermon on seeds last weekend touched on the idea of influence and statistics (quite a rare combination, in my experience!) When discussing the parable of the sower, he said that a pessimist (generally speaking, that's me!) sees the 'results' of this parable in...

"When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child." (1 Cor 13:11 TNIV)Last week we had the privilege of looking after a toddler for the day (an exhausting but enriching and fulfilling occasion!) and once again I pondered on...

Mark's sermon looked at the topic of seeds. Without seeds, there can be no harvest; we have to plant the seeds in order to have germinated crops to harvest. As the quiz demonstrated, seeds don't always look like the thing they grow into.The tiny acorn... ... grows...