A Lesson from the Stony Soil In the Gospel of Mark chapter 4, Jesus describes four types of soil in His famous Parable of the Sower. Each one represents a different condition of the human heart. Last week, we talked about the hard soil, or the trampled heart. Today, we turn our attention to the stony soil—what Jesus calls the shallow heart. “Some seed fell on rocky places where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly because the soil was shallow. But when the sun came