Those pesky thorns and weeds are impossible to get rid of. Farmers use herbicides, and I use chemicals in my yard trying to kill weeds so the grass can grow. But somehow they keep showing up. This is so true in life too! In the Parable of the Soils (Mark 4:1-20) Jesus uses thorns as […]
Read all of Proverbs 25, the focus of this devotion is on Proverbs 25:21-22. Don’t you just love all the talk in the Bible about loving one another. I mean, WOW, God wants us to love each other. We get to have friends, and hang out. We love people on the same team, or who […]
Gospel According to Jesus – Resource for Rocky Soil
Continued the series on Jesus’ parable of the soils yesterday, with our focus on the rocky soil. The rocky soil represents people who quickly believe the Gospel, but have no root and after a short period of what seems to be Christian growth they quickly fall away when hardship arises. I believe the issue Jesus […]
Read all of Proverbs 24, the focus of the devotion is on Proverb s 24:23-26 We live in a time where the dominant philosophy has been called Postmodernism. The basic teaching of this generation is that there is no absolute truth. What is right for one person, may not be right for another person. There […]
Resource on Parable of the Two Sons
During the sermon this morning I spent some time talking about Jesus parable of the two son’s, often called the parable of the prodigal son (I explained why I thought this was not the best title for the parable). Author and pastor Tim Keller wrote an amazing book on this parable called The Prodigal God. […]