Teaching from June 2025

Luke 23:32-34 Well, we return to Luke 23 this morning so you can open your Bibles there. Luke 23, the record of Jesus crucifixion, the cross and the empty tomb are two stubborn facts of history, and these are the places where God glorified himself most clearly. This is the, right here, what we’re reading is the pivot point of time itself. It presents to us a line that divides humanity into the elect, and the reprobate into believer and…

Luke 23:26-31 Let’s open our Bibles to Luke 23. Luke 23, the record of our Lord’s crucifixion. And today we are looking at verse 26 and following, where Jesus speaks to the weeping women. And as he speaks to the weeping women, and through the weeping women to the rest of the nation of Israel, he is conveying the mercy of God to a people who are under judgment. They’re heading for disaster. This crucifixion of their Messiah does not…

Luke 23:26-49 As we come to the text today, we, we are coming in, in anticipation of our celebration of the Lord’s table a little later in the service. So what we’re going to do today is kind of prepare our hearts for communion with a message that’s a little more general and broad, dealing with Luke 23. We’re going to slow down, kind of get the thirty-five thousand, forty thousand foot view of Luke’s crucifixion narrative and reflect on…

Luke 23:20-25 Well, you can turn your Bibles to, you guessed it, Luke 23. Luke 23. This week we are witnessing the final adjudication of the case against Jesus Christ before Pilate, the Roman governor. Pontius Pilate was, as we know, governor of the most powerful nation on earth. He was an emissary of the Empire in Judea. And though he was a powerful man, skilled ruler, we have to remember, and we should remember this about our all our…

Luke 23:13-19 Well, we want to ask that you would turn in your Bibles to Luke chapter 23, Luke 23. We’re looking at the judicial proceedings of Jesus as he stands, here in Luke 23, at the beginning, as he stands before secular authority; namely, the Roman governor, Pontius Pilate. And the major theme of this section is, I’m sure you’ve picked it up: Jesus is innocent. He is innocent of all charges. All accusations do not land on him…