{"id":4807,"date":"2017-01-16T18:09:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T18:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4807"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:04","slug":"musing-through-matthew-the-stony-place-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4807","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew- The Stony Place Seed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again\u00a0today from Matthew 13:20-21 and the theme of <strong><em>Jesus the king.<\/em> <\/strong>Our text for today teaches about <strong><em>the stony place seed<\/em><\/strong>. We have the same sower, Jesus\u00a0and the same seed,\u00a0the Word of God but with\u00a0drastically different results. The seed is received with joy. This seems like a promising convert. How many of us who share our faith have such results. The seed just lies on the surface it has no roots and endures but a while. When trouble comes the professor is offended and gone. May I remind us that only a sovereign God\u00a0cause the Word of God to take root in the\u00a0soul of a lost sinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again\u00a0today from Matthew 13:20-21 and the theme of Jesus the king. Our text for today teaches about the stony place seed. We have the same sower, Jesus\u00a0and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-musings-from-the-motel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5086,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807\/revisions\/5086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}