Each of these three parables has the same motif – something is lost, there is a search, the lost is found, the lost is restored, and there is a celebration. The protagonist in each parable is not the lost one but the finder.
The Gospel of Luke – Luke 15 – Parables of the Lost Read More »
Within this section, Luke brings together a series of banquet-themed stories. Within these stories, Jesus imparts his wisdom and teaching on the Kingdom of God.
The Gospel of Luke – Luke 14 – Banquets Read More »
The issue before us is whether to follow Jesus and his way of peace with a reliant faith in God’s Kingdom or to follow the way of the sword with a reliant faith in political change.
The Gospel of Luke – Luke 13 – Whose Kingdom Read More »
In Jesus’s apocalyptic contest between God’s Kingdom and the powers of evil, Jesus teaches that he needs total loyalty from his followers and that his followers must completely reorder their priorities. Although Jesus just told his disciples not to be anxious, here he tells them they do need to be watchful and ready.
The Gospel of Luke – Luke 12 – Be Watchful, Not Anxious Read More »
In their policing of social boundaries and correct conduct, the Pharisees’s iniquity was not hypocrisy but in placing themselves as overlords of others. Their iniquity was making themselves great and placing crosses on the backs of others.
The Gospel of Luke – Luke 11:29-54 – Denunciation of the Pharisees Read More »
Jesus moved the lawyer’s inquiry, which sought to husband God’s grace in isolated security and purity, to one of extending God’s grace to the whole world. In other words, Jesus’ response to the lawyer’s testing shows just how far the mission that began with the Twelve and then the Seventy will extend.
The Gospel of Luke – Luke 10:25-11:28 – The Lawyer’s Question Read More »
As you receive the communion wafer, let it touch your lips, and at that moment, know that you are no longer a person of unclean lips. And as you allow the wafer to pass through your lips, experience the grace of God coming upon you – in all of its wonder and awe and its amazement and incomprehension.
A Sermon on Our Sin and God’s Cleansing (Isa. 6:1-8) Read More »
In Luke 9, Jesus commissioned and trained the Twelve to carry on his work. Here, he expands his workforce by adding seventy additional apostles to proclaim the Kingdom of God.
The Gospel of Luke – Luke 9:51-10:24 – The Seventy Read More »
In these readings we encounter Jesus’s disclosure to the Twelve as to the meaning of his identity as the Christ, and Jesus’s instructions to them as to what is required of his disciples.
The Gospel of Luke – Luke 9:7-51 – The Training of the Twelve Read More »
Jesus is the founder of the Kingdom of Heaven, but for the business to succeed, he needs others to share in the planning and responsibility of the venture. These are the Twelve.
The Gospel of Luke – Luke 8:40-9:6 – The Commissioning Read More »
