Luke - 2018
Sunday
Luke 1:38-56
April 29, 2018
"Please hear this--too many of us are afraid of believing that God wants to do great things for us/in us/through us! Too many of us look at our circumstances and conclude that God is not working/won't work in/through us. Too many of us are sad, depressed Christians missing out on God's best for us! Everything God has for us must be/can only be received by faith! By believing God!"
Luke 1:57-80
May 6, 2018
"You'll remember that Zechariah's faith failed when Gabriel came to him. But, as God always does, he gets a second chance at faith and does he ever take advantage of it! Scripture is filled with stories of people who failed. Many of those people ended up in Hebrews 11! God always provides another opportunity."
Luke 2:1-19
May 13, 2018
"One of the reasons this story never gets old for me, even though it is the most familiar in all the NT, is because I never stop marveling at the fact that God became a baby! One minute receiving worship of angels, the next traveling through a birth canal only to find Himself surrounded by animals, poverty, and low-life shepherds! This is an amazing story--the first Christmas."
Luke 2:19-35
May 20, 2018
"The will of God is not something difficult to find. It's not. Live your life waiting for, wanting the return of Jesus and you will find yourself being moved into position by the Holy Spirit! It's the man or woman who is not eager for the Lord's return, the man/woman who is trying to chart his or her own path, that misses the will of God. We all need to be where we can be moved by the Holy Spirit."
Luke 3:1-9
June 3, 2018
"From very early times the message has always remained the same: people who enter God’s kingdom must experience change. I hope this isn’t controversial for anyone here because it is absolutely undeniable. You cannot meet Jesus—KNOW HIM, be known by Him—and not change. It’s God who does the changing and, it’s true, some take longer than others to change, but if you have really been born again, you will experience changes in your life. Not an option."
Luke 3:10-38
June 10, 2018
"The Messiah was coming to separate the wheat (true believers) from the chaff (professing but not genuine believers). The wheat would go into the barn of the Messiah while the chaff will spend eternity in hell being tormented night and day without relief. Hell is not some myth. It is real and it lasts forever. The next time someone tells you they don’t believe in hell, tell them Jesus did and so do you! Just because someone doesn’t believe in it doesn’t make it any less real."
Luke 4:14-30
July 15, 2018
"Please notice that Jesus went to church. It wasn’t a perfect church—it was full of hypocrites. But He went because that is what followers of God do! Most of us have heard professing Christians say that ‘you don’t have to go to church to be saved…’ But Jesus went. This is our example— it was His custom."
Luke 4:31-44
July 22, 2018
"When you accept what Jesus Himself says (in the entirety of Scripture; not just red-letters— Jesus wrote all of it), you find His opinions, thoughts, and commands. That frees you from being under the authority of a Bible teacher’s opinions and releases you into the custody of the One with true authority. The Bible, the Bible, the Bible."
Luke 5:12-26
August 5, 2018
"Too many today don’t really want to be changed—they don’t want to be healed of their sin. Oh, they want to be saved from hell but not from their sin. It would be nice to be able to sin and go to heaven; it doesn’t work that way. To be rescued from hell requires that we allow Jesus to rescue us from our sin."