"Luke" Tagged Teaching (Page 18)
The Deliverance of Discipleship
Luke 9:23 Back on January 20th, we got an introduction to this most pivotal text, Luke 9:23. If you’re not there already, I’d ask you to turn there in your Bibles, Luke 9:23. We want to return, there, today. It’s probably fair to say that we’ve all been arrested by this text. I certainly have. In fact, I kind of feel like Peter at the Transfiguration. I just want to make some booths and camp here for a long, long…
The Scandalous Offense of the Cross
Luke 9:23 Please take your Bibles and turn them to Luke chapter 9. We come in our study of God’s Word this morning to one of the most defining and one of the most descriptive verses in the Christian faith. It really is a verse that captures in a nutshell exactly what it means to be a Christian, it’s in Luke 9, verse 23. If you’re visiting with us today, or if you’ve been visiting Grace Church, in and out,…
Six Marks of the Messiah’s Mission
Luke 9:21-22 Well we are in Luke 9 this morning so I would invite you to turn your bibles to Luke 9. Luke 9:18-22 is really the section we’re in, this is the perfect spot in the text to prepare our hearts really to participate together in the Lord’s table, ah, later in the service and as your listening as we go through the text here be sure your listening prayerfully and reflectively, meditating on the very, very, weighty truths…
The Christ of God
Luke 9:18-20 We are back in our study of Luke’s Gospel, so you can turn in your bibles to the next verse, Luke 9:18 and if you are visiting with us for today we are so glad as we’ve said, so glad that you’ve come we want to welcome you and greet you in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior there is probably no better way to sum up Grace Church and what we stand for, what…
Jesus Feeds Five Thousand, Part 1
Luke 9:10-17 Turn to Luke Chapter 9. Luke chapter 9. We have the privilege over the next couple of weeks to study one of Jesus’ most well-known, most beloved miracles; his feeding of the 5000. Feeding of the 5000, you’ll find that in Luke 9:10 to 17. This is the only miracle, apart from the resurrection itself, the only miracle that is recorded in all four gospels. It is important to say the least. It’s the climactic miracle that marks…
The Apostolic Way
Luke 9:3-6 We’re returning to our study of Luke’s gospel and Luke’s, Luke chapter 9, you can turn there in your Bibles. Luke chapter 9. When we started into this last week, Luke chapter 9, this wonderful chapter, been a lot of transitions in it, missional transition, geographical transition, theological transition, as the identity of Jesus Christ is made evermore plain and glorious for us, the readers. As we saw last week, Jesus is sending out the apostles on their…
Jesus Sends the Twelve
Luke 9:1-2 Luke, Chapter 9, very important, a, very important transitional chapter in Luke’s Gospel. In several, several significant ways it makes transitions. You can see a, a, geographical transition in Luke 9, as you read through it. Jesus leaves Galilee behind. He finishes up his ministry there and starts to make his way to Jerusalem. If you’re in Luke 9, you can see in verse 51, toward the end of the chapter it says, “When the days drew near…
Perfecting an Imperfect Faith, Part 2
Luke 8:40-56 Well, for our time in God’s Word, this morning, we hope to finish the account that we started last week. So please turn in your Bibles to Luke, chapter 8 and verse 40. Luke 8:40. We’ll be going through that account to the end of the chapter, verse 56. At the end of Luke, chapter 8, we are seeing Jesus demonstrating incredible power. It’s divine power. It’s, it’s the power of God. He’s commanding the forces of nature,…
Perfecting an Imperfect Faith, Part 1
Luke 8:40-48 We are coming into a section here at the end of Luke 8, if you’d like to turn in your Bibles there. The section that really does wrap up the chapter, verses 40 to 56. We have seen in this eighth chapter of Luke some I, really what, what could we call them? Dramatic displays of divine power in Jesus’ ministry. We saw Jesus calm a storm at sea. He commanded inanimate natural forces like wind and waves,…
Evangelism and the Mercy of God
Luke 8:34-39 Turn in your Bibles to Luke chapter 8. We have been working our way, over the past couple of weeks, through this amazing account of deliverance, as Jesus rescues a man from a severe, very severe case of demonic possession. The whole story is there in Luke 8:26-39. I’m gonna read the first part for you, the parts that we’ve covered, provide a little bit of review. If you’re there in Luke 8, follow me as I read…