Sermon: Gone to Seed

Do you know what it means when plants have “gone to seed”? This is when plants that have experienced trauma will sacrifice themselves by redirecting their growth to producing seeds for the next planting season.

My sermon came from I Peter 1:23 “For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God." Christ, like the bolting crop, sacrificed himself to create seeds that he plants in our spirits when we open our arms to embrace him. He lives in us through those seeds he plants, and that seed will grow to yield the fruit according to God’s purpose.

Candance Greene

Rev. Candance L. Greene is an ordained Itinerant Deacon in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. She is the 2023-2024 Hooper-Keefe Preaching Award recipient. Chosen by the faculty at Fuller Theology Seminary, this award is given to students who have shown an outstanding giftedness in Homiletics (preaching).

Rev. Candance is a published writer, podcaster and the founder of Cherishedflight, a ministry dedicated to helping people realign with the peace of God. She has produced over 100 episodes of Cherishedflight the Podcast where she shares biblical steps her listeners can take to implement the peace of God in their lives on a daily basis.

Candance is a graduate of Paine College where she earned a BA in English, and Goucher College where she earned an MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing. She has been published in a variety of anthologies, scholarly books, and journals including: Bittersweet: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Women’s Poetry; Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction; Fearless Confessions: A Writer’s Guide to Memoir; and the Huffington Post. A native of Nashville, Candance now resides in Baltimore with her husband and three children.