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Wayside heart Parable

The Wayside Heart

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Series: In Pursuit of Relational Knowledge

Parable of the Heart Soils

Today’s lesson is focused upon the first of the 4 hearts in Jesus’ parable of the heart soils and that is the Wayside Heart. This is also correctly termed the Pathway heart, the heart of ignorance and the hardened heart.

We addressed all that Jesus said about this heart from Matthew, Mark & Luke, comparing them as we took note of what was distinctive of this heart in both the parable and in Jesus’ later explanation of the parable to His disciples.

We discovered that there are at least two different types of hard hearts though they both share a common cause or root. One can be helped and the other must change first before it COULD be helped. The religious leaders of Jesus’ day often fell into the worst type of hardened heart, while even His Own disciples often fell into the other.

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Think God

Thinking on God

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Series: In Pursuit of Relational Knowledge

Last week we focused on God’s command to remember Him and the things He has done, in order to keep our hearts from growing cold and unresponsive to Him.

This week we are taking a more simple approach – thinking on God.

Sounds simple enough, but we need examples and God has supplies many.

Some of the greatest lovers and pursuers of God have left us with their thoughts as they considered God in their lives. These we take as examples of pathways along which to guide our thoughts since these are people God Himself made special note of.

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Remember

Commanded to Remember

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Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:34:08 — 164.1MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Sunday 06/25/23 Message: Commanded to Remember ***Video is HERE*** Share this:    Commanded to Remember Today we are looking at remembering. As you may recall, at least two passages we have frequented since the first of the year encourage us to remember or warn against forgetting. 2Peter 1:8-14, “(8) For if these things are really yours and are continually increasing, they will keep you from becoming ineffective and unproductive in your pursuit of knowing our Lord Jesus Christ more intimately.  (9)  But concerning the one who lacks such things – he […]

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Sabbath

By Request: To Sabbath or not to Sabbath? Pt. 4 – Lingering Issues

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Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:47:03 — 179.9MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Wednesday 06/21/23  Message: By Request: To Sabbath or not to Sabbath? Pt. 4 – Lingering Issues ***Video is HERE*** Share this:   By Request: To Sabbath or not to Sabbath? Pt. 4 – Lingering Issues Tonight we are looking again at some final lingering questions we have about The Sabbath and observing it under the New Covenant. Now this is our fourth teaching and I have thought for sure at the beginning of each of them that surely, this will be our last teaching on this… and I as much as […]

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Father benefits

The Father – benefits of being His children

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Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:07:08 — 115.5MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Sunday 06/18/23 Message: The Father – benefits of being His children ***Video is HERE*** Share this:    The Father – benefits of being His children Today is Father’s day and upon THE Father, is where I am going to focus my teaching this morning. Now you may remember that I did not focus this year on Mothers so you may wonder why, this year, I am choosing to place more focus upon fathers than mothers. Well… First off, let me say that one of the most popular messages on our church […]

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