SCRIPTURES: Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23, Luke 8:4-8, 11-15
OBJECT: a few seeds and a flat rock
Today we’re going to begin looking at one of the parables Jesus told. It’s usually called “The Parable of the Sower,” and it’s about a farmer who was trying to plant his crop.
You may not know much about planting crops but that’s OK, because the farmer in this story didn’t plant the way a farmer would do it today, anyway. Back then they didn’t have all of the machinery we have now. The farmer in this parable does something very simple: (act this out by pantomime) He takes the seeds in his hand and scatters them on the ground. He would come along later and plow the seeds under. (more…)