This Sunday's Inspirational Message is:

What Kind Of Ground Are You?

Today's message actually starts in a field. So if you've ever planted a garden, or watched a farmer work a field, or even just tried to grow one stubborn tomato plant on your back porch, this one's for you.

Today we're opening up to Matthew 13:18-23. This is Jesus explaining His own parable — the Parable of the Sower. Now, here's the thing. Jesus already told this story to a big crowd down by the Sea of Galilee. A farmer went out to plant seed, and that seed landed on four different kinds of ground. Some seed never even had a chance. Some sprang up fast and died just as fast. Some got choked out before it could produce anything. And some — some — took root and produced a harvest beyond anything the farmer could have expected.

In this message, we're going to walk through all four soils, and we're going to ask some honest questions about which one describes us — maybe even at different seasons of our lives. We'll talk about hardened hearts, shallow hearts, distracted hearts, and good soil hearts. And we'll land on three simple, practical action points: guard your heart against the things that harden it, tend your roots through the ordinary means of grace, and expect God to grow real fruit in you — even if it doesn't look like everybody else's harvest.

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"Scripture quotations taken from the Holy Bible: New American Standard Bible. 1995. LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.

The music "Revive Us Again" and "Be Thou My Vision" arranged and played by Don Wigton. Used by Permission.