"While a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from town after town, he told this parable: 'A farmer went out to sow his seed.'" (Luke 8:4-5a) Reading the parable of the soils in Luke's gospel, I'm surprised by the final sentence of Jesus' explanation of that parable to the disciples: "As …
Scatter the Word :: Vincent van Gogh, “The Sower”
Vincent van Gogh, The Sower; oil on canvas; 1888. After Jesus' resurrection, there are numerous accounts of Jesus meeting with His disciples. Several of those accounts depict Jesus' commissioning His disciples to continue the work He began (see Matthew 28:16-20; Mark 16:15-18; Luke 24:45-49; John 20:19-23; Acts 1:6-8). He invites them to become witnesses of Jesus …
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The Soils: our hearts in relation to the seed of kingdom of heaven
"As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they …
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The Seed: receiving the message of the kingdom of heaven
"Then he told them many things in parables, saying: 'A farmer went out to sow his seed.'" (Matthew 13:3) Jesus' parable of the sower and the soils begins with the farmer sowing his seed into the soils around. There is a wondrous extravagance, even an open-handed wildness, to the way the farmer sows the seed. …
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The Sower and the Soils
This past weekend at Eastbrook, I continued our series, "Stories of the Kingdom: Parables of Jesus," by looking at the parable of the sower and the soils in Matthew 13:3-9 and Jesus' explanation of it in Matthew 13:18-23. This was also our annual Eastbrook Outdoors service. You can find the message video and outline below. …
Matthew Erickson 