Sermonette: Controlling the Weeds <\/p>\n
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description: (hide) Mike Ford, reflecting on the Kudzu infestation in the Southeast United States, a plant that was supposed to provide groundcover and prevent erosion, but has gotten totally out of control, draws some comparison of this fast growing weed with sin in our lives. Weeds, such as thorns, thistles, and briars, exhibit the function of choking out good seed, stunting and preventing desirable growth. Weeds are aggressive, stealing valuable nutrients, moisture, sunlight, and space from otherwise healthy plants. Because of the large number of species of weeds ant their propensity for high seed yields, eradicating weed is nearly impossible. If we don’t tend them on a daily basis, they get out of control. The same is true with spiritual weeds. The entangling cares of the world draw off nutrients from our spiritual garden in which grow the fruits of God’s Holy Spirit. Without daily tending, the weeds get out of control, choking our spiritual crop. Being spiritually lazy is tantamount to Laodicean behavior, allowing the entanglements to interfere with spiritual exercise, such as prayer, Bible study, or meditation. <\/p>\n
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Sermonette: Controlling the Weeds #114s Mike Ford (1955-2021) Given 12-Feb-94; 15 minutes listen: description: (hide) Mike Ford, reflecting on the Kudzu infestation in the Southeast United States, a plant that was supposed to provide groundcover and prevent erosion, but has gotten totally out of control, draws some comparison of this fast growing weed with sin … Continue reading “Sermonette: Controlling the Weeds”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}