“But the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.” Matthew 13:23 (NIV)   God has planted His Word in your life, but the growth depends on the soil of your heart. The parable of the sower shows us four kinds of hearts: the hard, the shallow, the crowded, and the fruitful. The hard heart rejects God’s Word, bouncing it off like a seed on rock. The shallo...