12102022 – Luke 11. 2-11 John the Baptizer had “EXPECTATIONS” about the ONE who WAS to Come. He WASN’T alone. A lot of people did. It was actually pretty COMMONPLACE. Some thought of a KING, like King David. The Greatest King of All Time. The “GOAT!” Some expected A “WISE RELIGIOUS RULER,” perhaps someone like […]
11162022 – Luke 21. 5-19 There was a time when “the TEMPLE” was everything. It was “THE” spiritual center for Jews. It was the “ONLY PLACE” of sacrificial worship for a people that lived throughout the then, known world. It was “A PRIESTLY INSTITUTION.” Holy-Sacred-Set apart. It had a “CENTRAL PLACE” in the Torah, in […]
11092022 – Luke 19. 1-10 I don’t usually get the opportunity to speak about this. The Greeks had two forms of time…one was called CHRONOS or “chronological time.” One minute follows the NEXT, minutes turn into hours, each hour is followed by another, hours turn into days, days into weeks, weeks into months, months into […]
11052022 – Luke 6. 20-31 Do you SPIT? I know, it’s a VERY STRANGE WAY to start out “an All Saints Weekend sermon.” (But I have an inquiring mind.) Hopefully, prayerfully, you would never spit on or at another human being… I mean like NEVER… Hello! Every once in a while, you hear a report […]
10192022 – Luke 18.1-10 Have you ever felt like “an underdog?” I know that I have…maybe even, many times in my life. An underdog is a person or a group in a competition, usually in sports and creative works, who is expected “to lose.” The party, team, or individual expected to win is called the […]
10162022 – Luke 18. 1-10 Let’s talk about “the widows’ faith.” “Pray ALWAYS and DO NOT LOSE HEART,” Jesus said. The widow of this parable was exemplary of that kind of faith. BELIEVE. TRUST. HAVE FAITH. VISUALIZE IT. SEE that IT IS going to happen. KNOW that it WILL HAPPEN. EXPECT IT. That is “the […]
10152022 – Luke 18. 1-10 This is just “basic background” information. Acting upon the advice of Jethro, (Moses’ Father-in-law,) Moses selected “able MEN” out of ALL Israel and made them “HEADS” over the people, RULERS of thousands, RULERS of hundreds, RULERS of fifties, and RULERS of tens; and they “judged” the people at all seasons, […]
10082022 – Luke 17. 11- 19 William Barclay was a Scottish author, radio and television presenter, Church of Scotland minister, and, Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism, at the University of Glasgow, he died in the year, 1978. About the subject of “Biblical Leprosy” he wrote: “It might begin with little nodules which go […]
10052022 – Luke 17. 5-10 From the gospel tonight I detect two or maybe even three different kind of churches. And of course you realize by the time of gospel writer, the church had already been around for some 40 years… There are “MANY TYPES of churches,” and some might even say, THEY ARE […]
1002022 – Luke 17. 5-10 Jesus got a little testy, this morning… Maybe he got up on the wrong side of the mat or something… And surprisingly, it’s not with the Pharisees, not with the rich or the powerful, not with the scribes, but with his buds—his homeboys, the disciples. The story begins with the […]