Wheat and Weeds (Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43)

Pastor LyAnna Johnson takes on a parable that gets read as a story about sorting people into categories and pushes back on that reading directly: this isn't us versus them. Weaving in the one-year anniversary of last summer's hill country floods, a raccoon rescue that went viral, and some honest reflections on recent, painful headlines, she makes the case that no one is a finished project, that growth is often messy rather than pretty, and that the work of nurturing one another doesn't stop just because someone doesn't look, yet, like what they're becoming. Sermon date: July 19, 2026