Showing posts with label Word. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Word. Show all posts

4.24.2017

WHAT DOES THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER TELL US ABOUT OUR HEARTS? (MARK 4:1-20)

The Gospel of Mark, Parables, Word of God, heart

Why do some people some people love the word of God and others ignore it? Is it only a matter of belief or unbelief? Actually, it has more to do with the heart than you might think!

Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea, and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land.  And he was teaching them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them:  “Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.  Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and immediately it sprang up, since it had no depth of soil.  And when the sun rose, it was scorched, and since it had no root, it withered away.  Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain.  And other seeds fell into good soil and produced grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.”  And he said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

12.10.2016

THE WORD BECAME FLESH


If you were God—How would you want to be known? Some people believe that God is like a clock smith who created the world to sustain itself, but he doesn't really want to be known. Others believe that God is a force, and can be known as many forms or can't truly be known at all. 

I remember my first thought in considering God. It was clear to me that the universe was designed with such detail that would require intelligence that there had to be a God. Then it is simple I know, but if an intelligent God made me, then this God would want me to know him specifically. But how would God make himself known?