• The Parable of the Soils

    April 18, 2025

    Luke 8:1-15 Jesus gives His followers a parable to teach them how people respond to the good news of the Gospel. Some people embrace it enthusiastically, but quickly fall away because it wasn’t rooted deep within them. Others have it snatched from them before it even enters their consciousness. Still others believe, but when they tested, the truth gets strangled…

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Every Last Word is a radio and Internet ministry of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. Featuring the Bible teaching of Dr. Philip Ryken, Every Last Word teaches the whole Bible to change your whole life.

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Teaching the whole Bible to change your whole life

Philip Ryken serves as president of Wheaton College. He was educated at Wheaton College, Westminster Theological Seminary, and the University of Oxford. He is the author or editor of more than 30 books, including Art for God’s Sake: A Call to Recover the Arts and expository commentaries on Exodus, Jeremiah, Luke, and other books of the Bible. When he is not preaching or teaching, Dr. Ryken likes to play basketball and ponder the relationship between Christianity and American culture.

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