So Many Questions

Pastor Glenn preached from Mark 4:26-34. How should we read this text? Is it about the sower, the seed, or the harvest? And, for that matter, just who is the sower? So many questions!

Worship Resources Acknowledgements

“Praise the Lord, Sing Hallelujah”
Text: based on Psalm 148; The Book of Psalms, 1871; adapt. William J Kirkpatrick, ca. 1893; Music: William J Kirkpatrick, ca. 1893

“They That Wait Upon the Lord”
Text: Stuart Hamblen (chorus of song “Teach me, Lord, to Wait”); Music: Stuart Hamblen; ©1953, Renewed 1981 Hamblen Music Co.; Used by permission.; CCLI License #20093153

“God has set this day before us”
By Beth Merrill Neel, holdfasttowhatisgood.com/liturgy/call-to-worship

“Morning Has Broken”
Text: Eleanor Farjeon, Enlarged Songs of Praise, 1931, alt. © David Higham Assoc., Ltd.; Music: Scottish Gaelic traditional, Songs and Hymns of the Gael, 1888; harm. Martin Shaw, 1931, alt., © Oxford University Press

“Praise, I Will Praise You, Lord”
Text: French; based on Psalm 9:1-2; Claude Frayssé; English trans. Kenneth I Morse, 1988; Music: Claude Frayssé; harm. Alain Bergése, 1976; acc. Marilyn Houser Hamm; © 1975 Claude Frayssé; English translation copyright ©1989 Hymnal: A Worship Book; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“My Life Flows On”
Text & Music: Robert Lowry’s Bright Jewels for the Sunday School, 1869, alt.; Refrain arr. ©1989 Hymnal: A Worship Book, alt.; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“God Is Here Among Us”
Text: German; Gerhard Tersteegen, Geistliches Blumengärtlein, 1729; trans. The Hymnal, 1940, alt.; Music: Joachim Neander, Alpha and Omega, Glaub- und Liebesübung, 1680

“Masithi: Amen (Sing Amen)”
Text: Xhosa; South African traditional; trans. Unknown, alt.; Music: S C Molefe, ©1991 Lumko Institute; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084