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Are You Ready For Sunday…
Living out the word
“If you have ears, hear!” – Matthew 13:9
What does it mean to truly hear the Word?
Where have you seen God’s Word bear fruit in your life?
Where do you find hope in this parable?
Talking the Text Podcast
Westminster Talking the Text Podcast for Sunday, July 12th, 2026 | Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 | with Donovan Drake, Sarah Bird Kneff, and Will Wellman
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Scripture
Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23
The parable of the sower and the seed
13:1That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea.
13:2Such great crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat there, while the whole crowd stood on the beach.
13:3And he told them many things in parables, saying: "Listen! A sower went out to sow.
13:4And as he sowed, some seeds fell on a path, and the birds came and ate them up.
13:5Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and they sprang up quickly, since they had no depth of soil.
13:6But when the sun rose, they were scorched, and since they had no root, they withered away.
13:7Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them.
13:8Other seeds fell on good soil and brought forth grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
13:9If you have ears, hear!"
13:18"Hear, then, the parable of the sower.
13:19When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what is sown in the heart; this is what was sown on the path.
13:20As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy,
13:21yet such a person has no root but endures only for a while, and when trouble or persecution arises on account of the word, that person immediately falls away.
13:22As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the lure of wealth choke the word, and it yields nothing.
13:23But as for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and yields in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty."