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Let us pray…Gracious and loving God, we come before you today ready, ready to join back together in a physical space, ready to be in fellowship with one another, and so ready to see the faces of those we love and greet each Sunday morning. We are ready but we are not ready. There is much holding us back…

What you do with what you hear from the Word of God is of extreme importance and have eternal implications. How should people prepare to hear and respond to God’s word?

Jesus tells the parable of the sower. The question is, have you really heard what Jesus is saying?

Hope in Hearing Often we view Passover from the perspective of the resurrection and the hope it gives us in Christ’s victory over sin and death. But there is another hope found in that because He resurrected and still lives, He is indeed coming back. This is a hope the Early Church clung to even unto…

Jesus has compassion on the crowds who come to hear him.

A) On 3 Occasions in the Gospels Christ commanded us to Hear These words also appear in the letters to the seven churches in the Revelation. We will focus on the Gospels. It is recorded in 6 verses: 15 He who has ears to hear, let him hear! 9 He who has ears to hear, let him hear!” 43 Then the righteous…

Be Attentive

Introduction: The passage we have just read is perhaps one of, if not the most familiar of the parables of Jesus recounted for us in the four gospels. This same parable is told in Matthew 13 and in Mark 4 . When I say the word Parable, I’m aware that some may not know exactly what is meant by that so…

ME Intro (A hook): The Gospel of Jesus Christ is like a free all you can eat buffet of your favorite food. Let’s say there is an endless supply of meat loaf and mac n cheese down at the fairgrounds. I pick meat loaf and mac n cheese, Because that is our friend, Mason Barker’s favorite food. And he is…

Introduction: Todays text is a continuation of the teaching Jesus began in v.4-15 as he taught the crowd and then explained to his disciples the parable of the soils. The setting remains the same; Jesus is sitting in a boat on the edge of the sea of Galilee while the crowd is gathered on the shore to…

Vision of the Invisible

Please take your Bibles and turn to . Two weeks ago I began preaching a message, which I really did think I could get through in one weeks time. Well today’s message is the third part of that one sermon. Of course being the fellow that I am I have kept studying the passage in question and seeking to…

Studies in Mark 1. (NKJV) Parable of the Lamp 21 Also He said to them, “Is a lamp brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? Is it not to be set on a lampstand? A.Jesus is making an illustration B. B.His purpose is to reveal the Kingdom to those who are in C.It also implies that the Kingdom of…

A VERY LONG DAY ( ) The Healing of a Blind, Mute, Demoniac ( ) The Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit ( ) The Demand for a Sign ( ) The Intercession of Jesus’ Earthly Family ( ) A PUBLIC STORY ( ) A PRIVATE EXPLANATION ( ) Who Has Ears to Hear? The Apostles Those Who Have Been Made Alive in Christ The Elect…

Being a Christian vs. Being a Disciple

In today’s lesson, Jesus gives us four more parables back-to-back. These parables are not random stories listed one after another. Jesus is using today’s parables as specific illustrations to make His spiritual truth clear. Last week, Jesus gave His disciples their marching orders with The Parable of the Soils. He was preparing them to preach. Today, we see our responsibility in the parables. We are to listen. The kind of listening Jesus expects of us is a “hyper-hearing.”

We hate it when people hear the sounds of our words but don’t really listen. How can we develop eyes that truly see and ears that truly hear? Pastor Aaron preaches the last sermon from Acts 28:11-31.