In order to prepare for the happiest 2018 possible, we ended 2017 focusing on God’s word and how we hear it, looking at Jesus’ Parable of the Sower in Mark 4:1-20. Nothing will be more beneficial to our lives, our family, and our happiness than careful attention to God’s word. As a church, we are joining together to read the New Testament during 2018 following this plan.
This first parable from Matthew provides the key to understanding all the parables and to entering the kingdom of God.
Two parables directed against the religious leaders indicated why they would lose their management of the kingdom, and why others would take their place.
The gospel is the power of salvation for all who believe because it reveals the righteousness of God that is by faith from first...
