Luke 11:1-13
Jesus teaches us about prayer as a priority (1), with a pattern (2-4), based on a principle (5-8), requiring persistence (9&10), and that looks to a promise (11-13).
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Luke 5:1-11
When Jesus calls us to be his disciples (“learning followers”), he joins himself to us, shows his greatness to us, and prepares and leads us as we follow him and seek to lead others to him.
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Luke 17:7-19
From Luke 17:7-19 we see 3 lessons related to servanthood and thanksgiving that can help us root out pride and selfishness from our lives.
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Luke 5:33-39; Matthew 6:16-17
Last week we studied the why of fasting. This week we get more specific and try to understand how and what fasting looks like in our lives.
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Luke 5:33-39
People fast for many different reasons, such as health, dieting, or religion. Why do Christians fast? That’s a question that was posed to Jesus when some people asked, “The disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink.” His answer gets to the biblical purpose for fasting. In this sermon, we try to understand what Jesus says about fasting and the role it serves in our communion with God.
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Luke 5:27-32
The religious leaders of Jesus’ day excelled at erecting barriers for people to get to God–especially those they considered undesirable. Jesus, however, broke down those barriers. In this passage, we see how he went to those who were social and religious outcasts.
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Luke 2:8-20
The word is spread when a baby is born. Phone calls are made, pictures are posted, texts are sent, and cards are sent out. In this passage, we see the most important birth announcement of all. This birth announcement proclaimed “good news of great joy that will be for all the people.” What made Jesus’ birth so important that a multitude of angels declared, “Glory to God in the Highest?”
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Luke 2:1-7
After traveling through the first chapter of Luke, we now come to the main event in his birth narrative. Jesus is born. But few things about his birth are what we would have expected. He was born to a peasant couple, in an animal shelter, laid in a filthy manger. To top it all off, his first visitors were lowly shepherds. What did all of this mean? Why was the Savior of the world born under such humble circumstances?
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Luke 1:57-80
The people asked, “What then shall this child be?” He would be a prophet in the spirit and power of Elijah. Not only did he look like the great prophet, but his voice thundered like him as he proclaimed repentance for the forgiveness of sins. Who was this man John? And what was his message? This sermon explains the mission and message of John.
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Luke 1:39-56
Mary and Elizabeth had both received divine revelation about their respective miraculous pregnancies. When Mary went to visit Elizabeth, we see how God acted in them to further strengthen each other’s faith, and, by extension, ours today.
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