Proverb 4: 20 – 22 My son, give attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your sight; keep them in the midst of your heart. For they are life to those who find them and health to all their body. Colossians 4: 2 Devote yourselves to […]
1 Samuel 16: 7 (NCV) “God does not see the same way people see. People look at the outside of a person, but the Lord looks at the heart.” I just watched the movie Saving Mr. Banks. It is about Walt Disney’s trials and efforts in acquiring the rights to […]
Psalm 45: 1 God’s Word My heart is overflowing with good news. I will direct my song to the king. My tongue is a pen for a skillful writer. This psalm is written about Jesus and his bride, which is the church. The psalmist saw into the spiritual realm and was overwhelmed […]
Matthew 13: 23 And the one on whom seed was sown on the good soil, this is the man who hears the word and understands it; who indeed bears fruit and brings forth, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty. We often talk about the thirty, sixty, and hundredfold return. One most commonly hears […]
Matthew 13: 22 And the one on whom seed was sown among the thorns, this is the man who hears the word, and the worry of the world and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. Today we learn about another response people have to the Word which is sown in […]
Matthew 13: 20 – 21 The one on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, this is the man who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; yet he has no firm root in himself, but is only temporary, and when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he falls […]
Matthew 13: 19 When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is from the Parable of the Sower. Jesus told the Parable of the Sower to the crowd but later explained it when his disciples […]
