There was a farmer who didn’t know God. He would often wake before sunrise to work in the sod. He would plant the beans and the corn, His life felt meaningful, but he was not yet reborn. Day-after-day, he fed the animals with bales of hay, But deep inside of ...
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“Listen! A farmer went out to plant some seeds. As he scattered them across his field, some seeds fell on a footpath, and the birds came and ate them. Other seeds fell on shallow soil with underlying rock. The seeds sprouted quickly because the soil was shallow. But the plants ...
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James was my great-grandfather. A proud Irishman, he left his coastal birthplace and journeyed to America in the late 19th century. He was a farmer by trade, working rented land in his new country while he went through the process of becoming an American citizen. After gaining the coveted citizenship, ...
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Spiritual Roots: Analyzing the Four Soils By Joel B. Matt 13:3-9 And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow; And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: Some fell upon ...
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