Luke 5:27-32 Sin is a disease more widespread than seasonal flu and more deadly than Ebola. Jesus can cure it, and he’s the only spiritual doctor who can, but first…
Sermons on Luke (Page 14)
Luke 5:27-32 Sin is a disease more widespread than seasonal flu and more deadly than Ebola. Jesus can cure it, and he’s the only spiritual doctor who can, but first we need to admit we are sick.
Luke 19:10 Like a child on a merry-go-round, with every annual revolution we catch a glimpse of a familiar face in the crowd at Christmas time – that of Jesus.…
Luke 15:11-32 Do you want to spoil my fun?
Luke 18v9-14 “I am a creature of the day, passing through life as an arrow through the air…till a few moments hence I am seen no more! I drop into…
Luke 13:1-17 Some have argued that suffering is incompatible with belief in a God of love. This talk examines how suffering is explained by some of the world’s leading philosophies…
I wonder how would you react if you saw a church leader having lunch with a group of people who were guilty of fraud? Or maybe a Bible study leader hanging out with known drug addicts? Would you be a bit shocked, perhaps even judgmental, that they would even consider associating with such people? This is how Jesus was treated by the religious people of his day. We can distance ourselves from God not only in obvious rejection of him, but also in our religious morality – and this can be the more dangerous if it goes undetected…
A lawyer asks Jesus “what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” This is one of the most fundamental questions that everybody at some point asks, about what will happen when we die – we might phrase this question today something like “How can I be sure I’ll be saved in the end?” If we profess to be God’s people, then this will show in how we live our lives – not only in how we love God, but also in how we love others. Jesus challenges us not to think about who we are to love, but to be loving…
Luke 12:8-12 The most important talk anyone could hear about who will really be welcome in heaven. Words of Jesus with a challenge for everyone!
Luke 7:36-50 What does a Christian look like? Often we make assumptions about what Christians looks like – but the story of the sinful woman overturns those assumptions and cause us to look at ourselves afresh. It shows that our assumptions about what a Christian looks like depends on what Jesus himself is like.