Parkerville Baptist Church
Mike Bullard starts a new series of sermons. "When we go to the beach we often run in and out with the waves. What might it mean for you to get wet and take the next step with Jesus?"
Mark 4:1-12 NIV
Tide comes in...
1 Again Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake, while all the people were along the shore at the water’s edge.2 He taught them many things by parables, and in his teaching said3 “Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed.4 As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.
Mark 4:1-4 NIV
Mark 4:5-9 NIV
Mark 4:10-12 NIV
Pressing in
10 When he was alone, the Twelve and the others around him asked him about the parables.
Mark 4:10 NIV
Thorns
18 Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word19 but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful.
Mark 4:18-19 NIV
Press in
33 With many similar parables Jesus spoke the word to them, as much as they could understand.34 He did not say anything to them without using a parable. But when he was alone with his own disciples, he explained everything.
Mark 4:33-34 NIV
