Thorny Heart

The Thorny Heart

Series: In Pursuit of Relational Knowledge

Parable of the Heart Soils

When it comes to the Thorny Heart, the thorns were already present before the message of the Kingdom was sown there. These represent anxieties, worries, cares, the seduction of wealth and interests in things other than God’s kingdom.

The thorny heart is also the cowardly heart. It holds on to what it knows, for fear that surrendering control to the Lord will forfeit the good life for a life centered on the mundane. The opposite is true of course which is the lie, this heart believes.

We only covered the anxieties, worries and cares of this life in this teaching. We will address the seduction of wealth and the lust of othe things entering in next week.

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Stony Heart Parable Soil

The Stony Heart

Series: In Pursuit of Relational Knowledge

Parable of the Heart Soils

The Stony Heart is the type of Heart Soil which is unable to receive the seed of the word to any meaningful depth due to the abundance of stones riddled throughout the soil.

• WHAT are these stones?
• What kind of heart is shallow?
• What does the sun represent?

The stones are selfish interests in the BENEFITS of the kingdom without any COMMITMENT to the kingdom.

That in itself defines the heart as “shallow” as it would in any relationship.

At the first sign of opposition, affliction or persecution due to their affiliation with Christ Jesus the Stony Heart will forsake the Gospel Message.

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Israel Blessed

Blessed be My people, Egypt, the work of My hands, Assyria, and my special possession, Israel!

Podcast: Download (Duration: 27:32 — 42.3MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Wednesday 04/20/22  Series: Thru the Bible Message: Blessed be My people, Egypt, the work of My hands, Assyria, and my special possession, Israel! ***Video is HERE*** Share this:   Blessed be My people, Egypt, the work of My hands, Assyria, and My special possession, Israel! Isaiah 16:1-14, “(1) Send rams as tribute to the ruler of the land, from Sela in the wilderness to the hill of Daughter Zion.”   This tribute has a long history in Israel and that part of the world at large. The Moabites were conquered by David and […]

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Communion Easter

Communion of the Body, Blood & Resurrection

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:20:52 — 186.3MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Sunday 04/17/21 Resurrection Sunday 2022 Message – Communion of the Body, Blood & Resurrection NOTE: This was recoreded in a place NOT good for sound, so please forgive the unusually poor sound quality. Share this: Communion of the Body, Blood & Resurrection 1Cor. 11:23-24, “(23)  For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which He was betrayed took bread,  (24)  and after He had given thanks He broke it and said, “This is My body, which is for […]

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Passion

Entering the week of Passion with Him

Podcast: Download (Duration: 36:30 — 84.5MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Wednesday 04/13/22  Week of His Passion Message – Entering the week of Passion with Him ***Video is HERE*** Share this:      Entering the week of Passion with Him As I told you on Sunday, the week of Christ’s passion has for a long time been a time of reflection for me. It has become a week used to walk through THAT week with Him in my studies and in my heart.  To imagine being an Israelite of that day who is faced with making a decision about who this man […]

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