For the last few weeks I have felt led to read and teach from the parable of the sower. For this post, I will focus on the seed sown along the roadside. Matthew 13:3-4 says: And He told them many things in parables (stories by way of illustration and comparison), saying, A sower went out…
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The Parable of the Sower Part III/New Seasons
Mark 4:18-20: “And the ones sown among the thorns are others who hear the Word; Then the cares and anxieties of the world and distractions of the age, and the pleasure and delight and false glamour and deceitfulness of riches, and the craving and passionate desire for other things creep in and choke and suffocate…
Read MoreThe Parable of the Sower Part II/Dealing with a Root of Rejection and Perfectionism
Matthew 13:20-21 “As for what was sown on the thin (rocky) soil, this is he who hears the Word and at once welcomes and accepts it with joy; yet it has no real root in him, but is temporary (inconstant, lasts but a little while); and when affliction or trouble or persecution comes on…
Read MoreThe Parable of the Sower Part I/Going Through Trials and Depression
In the parable of the sower found in Matthew 13 and Luke 8, Jesus talks about four different types of soil that describe four different conditions of a person’s heart. He says the seed is the word of God and the first type of soil he describes is the traveled road (or hardened ground; this…
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A Deeper Walk 