"Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth." Imagine a farmer standing at the edge of his field with a single seed in his hand. He could ask, "What's the minimum I need to plant to say I farmed today?" Or he could ask, "What'...  Read More

"For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another." "What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?" Think about building a house. A contractor comes to your property and says, "I'll lay the foundation if you pay me. I'll fram...  Read More

"He said to them, 'Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.'" Every farmer knows that soil can become so hard that even the best seed can't take root. What starts as soft, fertile ground gradually hardens because of neglect, weather, and time. The same thing happens to our hearts, and Jesus knew exactly why the Pharisees neede...  Read More

"It was also said, 'Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.' But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery." In Jesus' day, men were divorcing their wives because the bread was burned or because they found someone prettier. These weren't ...  Read More

"And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria... Now those who were scattered went about preaching the word." Have you ever watched a farmer plant his field? He doesn't carefully place each seed in a perfect little pot. No, he scatters those seeds all across the field, sometimes in what look...  Read More

"Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit." Every farmer knows an incredible truth that most people never think about: before you can have a harvest, something has to die. That beautiful corn in the field? It started with a seed that completely disappeared into the ground. The apple tree producing fruit...  Read More

"And the tenants took his servants and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another." Picture a farmer who leases his land to tenants. When harvest time approaches, he sends his most trusted workers to remind the tenants of their agreement. But instead of welcoming these messengers, the tenants get angry. "Who are these people to tell us what to do with 'our' land?" So they beat up the first m...  Read More

"And the tenants took his servants and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. Again he sent other servants, more than the first, and they treated them the same way." Imagine you own a beautiful farm and decide to lease it to tenants. You provide everything they need - rich soil, protective fencing, all the equipment, even workers to help them. The only agreement is simple: when harvest ...  Read More

"When the season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to get his fruit." Have you ever watched a farmer during harvest season? There's incredible urgency in that moment. After months of watering, weeding, and waiting, the farmer knows exactly what he's looking for. He doesn't accept wilted plants or rotten produce - he wants quality fruit that reflects all the care he invested....  Read More

"Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants and went to another country." Picture this: A master farmer doesn't just throw seeds randomly in a field and hope for the best. No, he carefully prepares the soil, plants each seed with purpose, builds protective fences, and prov...  Read More

"For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus." If this week's journey through Jesus' teaching on heart purity has left you feeling convicted, you're not alone. The Apostle Paul, who wrote much of the New Testament, called himself the "chief of sinners" (1 Timothy 1:15). King David, described as "a ...  Read More

"Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body." The ancient Jewish concept of "building a fence around the Torah" offers profound wisdom for modern believers. Rabbis would create additional rules—not because God's commands were insufficient, but because human nature is weak. If the Torah prohibited work on...  Read More