Luke

When you and I run into somebody that we don’t care for at the grocery store, what do we do?  Well we turn and head in the other direction and pretend we [...]

What absolutely scandalized the Jewish religious leaders in Luke Chapter 15, is that Jesus not only received those they considered to be an abomination before God, but that He actively went out [...]

Religion says: I obey; therefore, I am accepted.  The Gospel says:  Because I am accepted, therefore I obey. The religious person obeys in order to gain acceptance - the Gospel believing person [...]

This week in Luke 16, we have a very perplexing story in the parable of the shrewd manager, which Christ then uses to lower the boom and bring forth a stinging indictment [...]

Consider the insatiable lust with which a person pursues the things of the world – pride, power, attention, entertainment, all manner of fleshly pleasures. Imagine a human being whose entire life is [...]

Jesus lays out an impossible standard in the extension of forgiveness to others, to which the Apostles essentially reply “There in no way we can run the program you’re laying out here, [...]