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May 10, 2005
Amusing Ourselves to Death
An interesting RSS feed today from RZIM.org, "Amusing Ourselves to Death." A great caution to our age -- where entertainment is more readily available than ever...
In Sabbath School class two weekends ago, we discussed the parable of the sower. I said I felt pretty confident I didn't have the issues outlined in the earlier verses, but worried about verse 19. How about you?
13 And he said to them, "Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables? 14 The sower sows the word. 15 And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown: when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that is sown in them. 16 And these are the ones sown on rocky ground: the ones who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy. 17 And they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away. 18 And others are the ones sown among thorns. They are those who hear the word, 19 but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. 20 But those that were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold." (Mark 4:13-20, ESV)
And...does verse 19 fit with Stuart McAllister's RZIM.org article?
Posted by alan at May 10, 2005 8:15 AM
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