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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Luke 1:26-38
After appearing to Zechariah in the temple. God spoke again six months later. This time it was far away from Israel’s religious and cultural center. He spoke to a simple girl named Mary in a small, rural town called Nazareth. His message was the most incredible of all, “the child to be born to you will be called holy–the Son of God.”
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Luke 19:1-10
In the parables of Luke 15, Jesus asked “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it” (Lk.15:4)? Now in the story of Zacchaeus Jesus literally goes in search of his sheep. By observing Jesus’ search for the lost, we can learn a lot about personal evangelism.
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Luke 15
When you lose something, what determines how long you search for it? It all depends on how much you value what you’ve lost. Jesus told three stories to illustrate this point in Luke 15. We’ll see how Jesus both searches lost people and rejoices when they are found, while the Pharisees do neither. Are you more like Jesus who searched or the Pharisees who did not?
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Luke 15:1-2
Jesus invested a lot of time with sinners, and the religious leaders didn’t like it. He told three of his most famous parables in response to their complaints. Why did he risk his reputation eating and drinking with such undesirable persons? Why didn’t the Pharisees agree with his methods? This simple introduction to chapter fifteen reveals deep insights about both Jesus’ and the Pharisees’ attitudes toward the lost.
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Matthew 1:18-25; Luke 1:31-35
If Jesus is the legal son of Joseph, then he is the birth son of the virgin Mary. We all echo Mary’s response to this news, “How will this be, since I am a virgin?”. Drawing upon a few texts, we’ll seek to answer two large questions about the birth of Christ: how can a virgin give birth? and can God become a man?
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Luke 10:25-37
Jesus told the familiar parable of the Good Samaritan in response to someone’s question about eternal life. But what does helping others have to do with the kingdom of God?
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Who Is My Neighbor? Read More »
Luke 12:13-34
How does eternity affect your finances? In this text Jesus addresses that question head on. While warning people of the coming judgment, he explains that what they do with their money reveals the condition of their soul.
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Luke 24:36-49
The resurrection of Christ is foundational to the faith. Today there are many who don’t accept this truth as historical fact, and even his own disciples had to be convinced of it. What did Jesus say and do to convince those closest to him that he had actually been raised from the dead? Should we expect him to do the same for us today?
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Luke 15:11-32
Jesus’ last parable in this series follows the same pattern of something lost, something found, rejoicing, and then the main point. In this parable, Jesus emphasizes the Father’s rejoicing through the image of a father rejoicing over the return of his lost son. The Pharisees, on the other hand, refuse to rejoice.
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