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 [...]
Isn't it interesting that the only record of Jesus sleeping in the Gospels, is in a small boat in the midst of a fierce storm? The disciples wake him up in a frenzy, and Jesus beats the Sea of Galilee dead flat in an instant with the power of His Word. In Luke [...]
Just one watermelon seed has been designed with the power to draw unto itself over 200,000 times its weight in coming to maturity, producing bountifully rich red fruits with beautiful green exteriors, each filled with another host of seeds capable of multiplying that initials seed’s production exponentially. In Luke Chapter 8, Jesus compares [...]
Join us this week for the 4th and final vignette in Luke Chapter 7, where Jesus meets a woman with faith, and a man without. And though the woman in this story get's the lion's share of the attention in teachings upon this text, we take a great interest and are compelled by, [...]
In Luke Chapter 7 Jesus tells religious leaders that wisdom in known by her children. In other words, the proof is in those who are walking upon the path that God has laid out for them. And just as wisdom has her children, so we understand foolishness has hers. And perhaps at no [...]
In Chapter 7 of Luke’s Gospel - we have the only recorded instance in which we’re told that Jesus “marvels” over human faith. And this man is neither Jewish nor religious, and yet his unshakeable confidence in the authority and dominion of Christ over all things, earns him this coveted nuance in the [...]
Religion increases two things. Religion increases regulation, and religion increases a spirit of criticism and judgement. In Luke Chapter 6 Jesus shows us the better way. We don’t work in order to rest, but rather it is out of a true rest that we go forward in work. It is out of a [...]
Do we really understand that we’re forgiven? If we name the name of Christ, do we understand that our iniquities are as made as far away from us as the east is from the west? How far is that? And if the answer that comes back to us is yes, then why is [...]
