Disease and death are two certainties that most of us will face. Some of us will experience chronic diseases that we’ll struggle with for years. Others of us will die…

“Conversion” is a good descriptive word to describe what happens at salvation. One is converted from one thing into another. There’s a complete change, a transformation, a remaking of someone…

In Jesus’ Parable of the Lamp, he compares his word to a lamp. Lamps are designed to provide light in the darkness. Context: Jesus was sitting in a boat teaching…

Jesus pictures a farmer going out into his fields to scatter seed. He sows the seed over various different qualities of soil, and the different kinds of soil produce different…

Thus far in Luke 7, we’ve seen several ways that Jesus validated his claim to be the Messiah. He’s healed the sick, raised the dead, cast out evil spirits and…

In the passage we’re looking at today, John the Baptist’s great expectations about Jesus seem to be in doubt. Things are not working out the way he expected. He apparently…

In today’s passage, we have the accounts of two healings, one of a person on the verge of death and the other of a person who had already died. Later…

If people know any one statement that Jesus made, it’s likely this: “Judge not.” Leading figures in our culture today urge us to tolerate, accept, and even celebrate the wicked…

Last time, we considered the rule—love your enemies—and the ways Jesus tells us to do that. We love our enemies by doing good to those who hate us, blessing them…

One of the most difficult requirements/expectations of the Christian life is being kind to those who mistreat us. The principle is stated most clearly in vss. 27 and .35, “Love…