07102022 – Luke 10. 25-37 A little bit of a different take…on this one: This strikes me as being all very academic. After all, we are dealing with an uppity-snootie-academician. It’s like he and Jesus are playing a game of “cat and mouse.” The legal expert trying “to get one-up on Jesus” and discredit him […]
07062022 – Luke 10. 1-11, 16-20 There is actually a field of study called “numerology, the study of numbers…” The number “70” appears in the scriptures a lot! Maybe even more than a lot! The number 70 is an “important number-historically as well as traditionally.” “70” like 7, is a number of completeness or wholeness. […]
07022022 – Luke 10. 1-11, 16-20 I tell you; this Jesus guy is not an easy guy to follow. He expects a lot of you. More than a lot…it’s like he expects everything…the world, even. Doesn’t he get it? Doesn’t he understand? We are human. We are not God. We are not perfect. Far […]
06292022 – Luke 9. 51-62 Our Gospel text is about “resistance” and at the very same time, it is about “excuses.” We know something about both. Something tells me there is a little “resistance” in all of us, and a whole lot of “excuses” in there…as well. We stand in opposition and “resist” a great […]
06252022 – Luke 9. 51-62 It is a life lesson. Not everybody is going to agree with you. Not everybody is going to like you. Not everybody is going to like “all of the time.” It is called reality. Heck, we don’t even like ourselves, 100% of the time! “And he sent messengers ahead of […]
08222026 – Luke 8. 26-39 People say they “CANNOT RELATE to this stuff!” “This is “THE STUFF” of HOLLYWOOD,” they say! Remember the movie, “THE EXORCIST?” It caused, fear, terror, horror, alarm, and sleepless nights, … AND, it made MONEY at the box office besides. There is even a whole Hollywood Horror GENRE. Demons ARE […]
06182022 – Luke 8.26-39 Imagine a disease “so terrifying” – a neurologic disability – that completely and totally devastates a human being. What can start out with a simple fever and a headache, and a feeling of tiredness, can quickly morph into psychosis, paranoia, delusions, false beliefs, and hallucinations. Now, imagine being agitated, alone, and […]
03302022 – Luke 15. 1-32 Jesus understood the power of storytelling. That’s why he used parables SO OFTEN in his teaching. The stories themselves painted PICTURES in the mind’s eye. You could follow along in your head. There was an actual IMAGE… a “VISUAL,” if you will. So here WE ARE, in Luke’s gospel, and […]
03272022 – Luke 15 We’ve been traveling with Jesus for a few weeks now. On Ash Wednesday “he set his face toward Jerusalem” and said, “there is NO TURNING BACK.” He had invited us – to go WITH HIM to the Jerusalem and beyond. ALONG THE WAY we are stopping and listening […]
03262022 – Luke 15. 1-32 The story of the “prodigal son” in Luke 15 – is the “quintessential story” of reconciliation in the Early Christian Writings. It is the story of A FATHER that has TWO SONS. (I don’t know about you, but I immediately think of Adam, and of the Cain and Abel […]