Sower and the Soils | How the Kingdom Grows

What if the point of the parable was never about the farmer? In Week 1 of How the Kingdom Grows, Pastor Ty Crowder sits down with Pastor Matthew and Pastor Taylor to walk through one of the most well-known passages in the Gospels: the Parable of the Sower and the Soils from Matthew 13:1-23. But here is what most people miss. Jesus is not critiquing the farmer. He is not calling out careless ministry or bad evangelism. He is asking a far more personal question: what kind of ground are you? In this conversation we dig into the first-century agricultural world Jesus was speaking into, why sowing before plowing was normal practice, what a 100-fold harvest would have meant to a crowd of Galilean farmers, and why Jesus chose this particular moment to start teaching in parables at all. We also sit with the four soils not as four categories of people, but as four possible conditions of the same heart at different seasons of life. If you have ever wondered why the Word seems to take root in some seasons and not others, this one is for you.