In our last study in Luke Chapter 2, we discover the only narrative the Bible gives us concerning the young Christ, and what we find is spectacular. The 12-year-old Jesus, after ordering a bus to take the best and brightest of Israel to school, handles an emotionally exasperated Mary with great wisdom and [...]
This week in Luke Chapter 2 we find 2 people who were of no reputation in the world, but who had a very deep and powerful walk with the Lord. They were 2 people who were devoted to God, and because they were devoted to God, they were able to treat people with [...]
Join as we launch a new study in the Gospel of Luke this Sunday and Monday at Verse by Verse Church! Luke, a physician by profession, sets out to compile the most thorough account of the life and ministry of Christ, as he puts on the hat of an investigative reporter in producing [...]
When we talk with unbelievers and assume a degree of spiritual familiarity that is just not there, we are going to do little more than push them further away from the Gospel. The Apostle Paul exhorts us in our final study in Colossians - conduct yourselves with wisdom before unbelievers, that you might [...]
If in fact we have bought into Christian theology, if in fact the unspeakable grace of God has illuminated the dark spaces in our hearts, then Paul is telling us in Colossians 3 that the fruits of the Spirit of agape love ought to be made evident to, and nourishing those, who are [...]
When you come to that week immediately preceding your vacation, let’s face it - you’ve got a little extra pep in your step, you’re filled with anticipation and joy at the prospect of a restful week in the noon day sun… And if we’re honest, we’ll acknowledge that we can put up with [...]
The Apostle Paul goes after the false humility of hyper spiritual mysticism, and exposes a number of other devices that false teachers use to deceive the children of God. Somewhere down the line, we in the American Church began to believe that the mysterious was more spiritual than the practical… That seeing a [...]
The fight that we are in together is the fight to delight in the Gospel. Our fight is not in how well we can perform spiritually, it is not in our religious works, it is not against a defeated enemy; we don’t need to go chasing demons all over the county… But the [...]
Having come to Christ with childlike simplicity, why is it that we feel like we have to now complicate things? Do we somehow think that the more complicated we make things the more spiritual we are? Paul tells the Colossians in our text this week - “Therefore as you received Christ Jesus the [...]
