Teaching (Page 62)

Teaching (Page 62)

Take Care How You Hear

Luke 8:16-18 What is Jesus illustrating with the lamp lighting analogy? What are the hidden things that are made manifest? What are the secret things that will be made known and come to light? Are Jesus’ disciples to take that as a word of caution? That, that is why we are to take care how we hear?  That is to say, is that the fact that all of our dirty laundry will one day be hung out to dry? So…

How to Cultivate Good Soil

Luke 8:15 Grab your Bibles, turn to the 8th chapter of Luke. As we have been doing in this study of the parable of the soils, let’s read the parable again, along with its explanation. You’ll find that located there in Luke Chapter 8, verses 4-15. “And when a great crowd was gathering, and people from town after town came to him,” that is, Jesus, “he said in a parable, ‘A sower went out to sow his seed. And as…

The Tragedy of Fruitless Christianity

Luke 8:13-14 It is a joy to return again, once again to our study of Luke’s gospel. So I’d invite you to turn in your Bibles. Open them to Luke chapter 8. We’re studying the parable of the sower also known probably more accurately as the parable of the soils, the parable of the soils in Luke chapter 8. The parable that Jesus tells here, it doesn’t have to do with the sower per se, but it has to do…