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Am I the Seed Among Thorns?

THOUGHTS: – – In Jesus’ parable of the sower, the soil type which concerns me most (as regards me personally) is the seed that fell among thorns. It is too easy to be distracted from the “eternal” by our daily lives.

SCRIPTURE: – – Matthew 13:7 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them.

Matthew 13:22 Now he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

QUOTATION: — “How is it that the soul being of such value, and God so great, eternity so near and yet we are so little moved?”
— (William Bramwell, 1759-1818)

MORE THOUGHTS: – – How thankful I that men like William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale (and many others) were willing to devote their lives (nearly 500 years ago) to bring us the Bible in English. They took advantage of the new technology called the printing press to bring the Word of God to the English people in their native tongue.

Now I, personally, need to feed on God’s Word (as contained in the Holy Bible) and strive to not allow this Holy Word to be choked out by the cares of life with the result being that I become unfruitful.

Thanks for reading and I pray this message blessed you today.

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Favorite Bible Reading Plan

The start of a New Year is a good time to start a Bible Reading plan.

This plan by Professor Grant Horner on YouVersion (a free Bible app) is my favorite.

I have tried many Bible reading plans, but always come back to this one.

It is 10 chapters — but many are short chapters. You can even listen instead of reading. I often do that.

It keeps your interest because you’re in 10 books of the Bible every day, but always read one chapter from the Gospels, Psalms, Proverbs and Acts, plus 2 more New Testament chapters and 4 more Old Testament chapters. See link below:

I’m reading the @YouVersion plan ‘Prof. Horner’s Bible Reading System’. Check it out here: https://www.bible.com/en/reading-plans/19

May God’s blessings be on each of us as we grow closer to Him through reading His inspired words.

When Jesus was tempted by Satan in the wilderness to make stones to bread, He said: “It is written, ‘MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD.’ ” (Matthew, Chapter 4, verse 4).

Jesus was quoting from Deuteronomy 8:3. To get more of the context of the verse, I’m going to quote the previous verse, too:

Deut 8:2 And you shall remember that the LORD your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

Deut 8:3 So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD.

All Bible quotations are from the New King James Version by Thomas Nelson Publishers.

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Published on Tuesday, October 2, 2018
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William Tyndale – A Few Quotes

John Foxe in his book, Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, attributes this famous saying to William Tyndale:

“If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy who drives the plough to know more of the scriptures than you do.” (Tyndale was in a discussion with a member of the clergy.)

I believe the next quote from William Tyndale is contained in one of his many prologues in his Old and New Testament Bible translations:

“I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.”

If memory serves me well, this third quote comes from a letter William Tyndale wrote to his friend, John Frith, who also died a martyr’s death.

“I call God to record against the day we shall appear before our Lord Jesus, that I never altered one syllable of God’s Word against my conscience, nor would do this day, if all that is in earth, whether it be honor, pleasure, or riches, might be given me.”

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