Emmaus Road Church

HARMONY OF THE GOSPELS 026 Mark 4:26–29 Matthew 13:24–30 Matthew 13:31–32 / Mark 4:30–32 Matthew 13:33–35 / Mark 4:33–34 HEALTHY GROWTH // INTRO It was William James who wrote, “I am Done with Great Things!” In one of his letters, the philosopher and psychologist shared a conviction regarding his focus not on big, grand things, but with small “almost invisible” decisions: “I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets,... yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man’s pride.” He rightly points out that mankind is usually obsessed with the big and grandiose, but overlooking the importance of small things We love BIG! God bless ‘MERICA!! Bigger is better! And we’re proud! And I could go on and on about Western culture and values, but what I want to say simply is that we tend to focus