1. God Lights Our Way
Red Letter Words
of Jesus in Luke

2. Is it Important
Choosing How
I Listen?
Luke 8:

3. Parable of Sower—
Let’s Farm!

4. Parable of Sower—
Let’s Farm!
Is this really what
Jesus is talking about?

5. Did you know Jesus
would probably FLUNK
Homiletics at Duke?
Luke 8:

6. actually addressing the
Jesus was NOT
actually addressing the
Sower of the Seed
but how the
LISTENER receives,
hears, the Seed

7. Furthermore, Jesus is really NOT speaking of Seeds but actually the Word of God and the importance of how we HEAR it!
Luke 8: 18

8. Status of our Spiritual Life
The Four Types of Soil
Equals
the Four Ways We Hear
which reflect
Status of our Spiritual Life

9. Spiritually Hardened Heart Our thoughts, unbelief,
1. Hardened Soil Equals
Spiritually Hardened Heart
Our thoughts, unbelief,
keeps Word from Penetrating

10. Air Force
“BIG BLU”
GBU-57 MOP
30,000 lbs

11. Spiritually Uncommitted— “CEF” Crowd Initial Reception of Joy
2. Shallow Soil
Spiritually Uncommitted—
“CEF” Crowd
Initial Reception of Joy
but no ROOTs

12. 3. Thorny Soil
Spiritual Juvenile
or Undeveloped
Pleasures & cares
of world choke Word

13. Real Story
of African Monkeys
&
Coconut w/Orange

14. Soft Heart soaking up Word spiritually maturing
4. Rich, Good Soil
Soft Heart soaking up Word
spiritually maturing
seeking constant plowing

15. status of our Spiritual Life
The Four Types of Soil
Equals
the Four Ways We Hear
which reflect
status of our Spiritual Life

16. SO
WHAT?

17. How
Am I Listening?