Every single religion in the world cries out for its adherents to conform. You take your outward man, and you conform to our programs and principles, you conform to our rituals, and you conform to our list of works to get to God. Biblical Christianity says no-no, where it begins is this. [...]
The religious establishment in Israel squanders it's last opportunity to receive Christ, and Jesus uses the text to teach you and I some very important lessons concerning how to maintain our spiritual houses if you will. Having been cleansed from the penalty of sin, Christ warns us that we now have to [...]
Oswald Chambers said “Prayer does not fit us for a greater work, prayer IS the greater work.” There is very little you can do this week for the cause of the Kingdom of Christ that is more important than giving yourself over to prayer. Now if your church told you they were [...]
In our second study in Luke Chapter 10, Jesus gives us 2 of the more familiar stories in the Gospel, the story of the Good Samaritan and an interesting little ditty with Martha and Mary. We must be ever so careful not to allow familiarity to inoculate us from some of the most [...]
In Luke Chapter 10 Christ says some very difficult and some very interesting things, teaching us yet again that where there is privilege there is responsibility. He tells three religious communities that the pagan cities of Tyre and Sidon and Sodom will fare better in the judgment than them, because they turned their [...]
This week in our final study in Luke Chapter 9, Christ reveals 7 heart attitudes that create a real impediment to discipleship. And with all the noise the political landscape is putting before us in the present hour, it is comforting to understand that God is in control, that you and I as [...]
We rightly understand that we are saved by faith and faith alone, and yet here in Luke Chapter 9, the issue isn’t sonship, it’s discipleship. Christ now issues a command by way of invitation - to deny ourselves, take up our cross and follow Him. God is not finished with us when we [...]
Several thousand people crash the disciples vacation there in Bethsaida, and they find themselves utterly unable to provide for several thousand hungry people. This week in Luke Chapter 9, Jesus not only vividly emphasized relying upon the sufficiency His provision, but that He desires to use His followers as the means of distributing [...]
Two worlds collide in our final story in Luke Chapter 8, and the contrast couldn’t be more pronounced, and yet poetically and beautifully deliberate. You have a wealthy man and a poor woman. A man whose name is given and a woman who remains unnamed. A man of notoriety and a woman of [...]
