Texts: Numbers 11: 1-15; Matthew 13: 31-35
Many of us when we first tried our hand at baking yeast bread had the same experience: our first loaves of bread were like bricks. I used my first loaf as a doorstop for in my first small apartment. That's because not being sensitive enough to yeast, we often killed the yeast with water that was too hot or too cold. Our grandmothers would have laughed, of course, because many of them learned the secret of keeping yeast alive during the pre-baking stage while they were yet children.
Yeast, or leaven, as it is called in this morning's text, is really a marvelous part of our natural world. Properly understood, yeast is a form of unicellular fungi – yes, think mushrooms, growth on plants in particularly swampy areas. Yeast are – the word is the same in the singular and pl...
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