My pastor preached about “Children of the Bible” on Sunday, and while it was a great sermon, in this blog, I want to focus on the part about being children of God. John 1:12-13 speaks of Jesus, saying, “But as many received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” In the physical world, we are all born in sin, because we inherit the sin nature from the disobedience of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. We read in Ephesians 2:1-5, “And you hath ..read more

There are three versions of the Parable of the Sower (also known as the Parable of the Soils), and they are found in Matthew 13:1-23, Mark 4:1-20, and Luke 8:4-15. In these parables, Jesus uses seeds as a substitute for the Word of God and talks about the various responses people have when hearing it.  The hard ground represents someone hardened by sin, who when hearing the Gospel, fails to understand and refuses to accept it, continuing in his or her sinful lifestyle. The stony ground represents someone who is delighted to hear God’s Word and professes belief until troubles come, at which ti ..read more