Advent 2024
The Bible. Know it in your head. Stow it in your heart. Show it in your life. Sow it in the world. J. Vernon McGee
The four lesson Advent series for 2024 is going to be a little different this year. Instead of a single scripture passage each week, we’ll have two. The first passage is that week’s portion of the Parable of the Sower from the Gospel of Matthew. The second passage is Jesus’ explanation of that week’s part of the parable. Here is Week 1’s scripture.
3And He spoke many things to them in parables, saying, “Behold, the sower went out to sow;
4and as he sowed, some seeds fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate them up.
Matthew 13:3–4 (NASB95)
16“But blessed are your eyes, because they see; and your ears, because they hear.
17“For truly I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.
18“Hear then the parable of the sower.
19“When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is the one on whom seed was sown beside the road.
Matthew 13:16–19 (NASB95)