Year A, Proper 10 / Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
“The Generous Sower and the Good Soil”
Main point: Our prayer is to ask God to make us good soil.
INTRODUCTION
This morning Jesus gives us an illustration of how God’s good news is received by people in the world. He compares the good news being spread around to seed being spread by a sower. And when that seed falls on the earth, it is received differently by various types of earth.
The seed hits hard/compacted ground, rocky/shallow ground, thorny ground, and finally good soil. And St. Matthew, the one who relays this illustration to us leaves us wondering: What kind of soil am I? What is the…
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