Text: Isaiah 43:18-19 18 “Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. 19 Behold...
Text Suggestions Isaiah 55:6-9 8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my...
When Jesus heard this he was amazed at him, and turning to the crowd that followed him, he said, ‘I tell you...
Overview: Advent is a time of spiritual preparation, anticipation, looking for God’s coming into our experience as...
The Text. Luke 12:24–34. 24 Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no...
The Text. Luke 13:10-17 Luke 13:10 On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues...
1. The Situation A man accosts Jesus demanding that he settle a dispute between himself and his brother about their father’s inheritance...
Psalm 139:7-12 Where can I go from your spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven...
Theme: Hopeful Expectations Beneath the Public Rancor Key Truths/Outline 1. The negative public face of the Christian...
Using Luke 8, Bill Peel explains that God is ready to help us in our work because all work is God's.
Luke 10:38-42 (NRSV) Now as they went on their way, he entered a certain village, where a woman named Martha welcomed him...
Text: Luke 5:1-11 1 One day as Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret, with the...
Zacchaeus threw open his doors and gladly, enthusiastically welcomed Jesus into his home. Have you done the same at work?
"Yet the news about him spread all the more, so that crowds of people came to hear him and to be healed of their sickness. But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed."
But the Pharisees and their teachers of religious law complained bitterly to Jesus’ disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with such scum?"
I don’t know about you, but my first response to this section of Jesus’ sermon is one of considerable uneasiness.
And he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. Then he began to say to them, "Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."
I have the tendency to ask my loved ones to pay attention to all the great things I’m doing.
Jesus used this healing to demonstrate that his cleanliness is more powerful than her uncleanliness.
I have heard miracles described not as things that should not be, but instead as revealing the way things should be.
