Sermons on Luke
Jesus utilizes mission as a powerful way to grow and to develop His disciples. When we faithfully and obediently pursue His mission, we grow and mature as both disciples and as disciple-makers.SHOW LESSAllWatched
Jesus calls and develops His disciples, and gives them the Great Commission to go and make disciples of all nations. Jesus used various settings, groups, and contexts to call and to develop and mature disciples. This week we are looking specifically at how Jesus utilized large group settings for discipleship, and how that applies to…
Jesus is The Resurrection and The Life. Through Jesus we have access to life eternal and also a changed and renewed life here and now!
Jesus came, not for the healthy, but for the sick. He loves the lost, the broken, the needy, the poor, the outcast, the broken, and the unlikely.
God calls his people to be cheerful givers, who joyfully invest in his Kingdom. He doesn’t want empty gifts or leftover scraps, but has called us to freely, joyfully, and obediently give back to him from all that he has blessed us with.
Jesus challenges our definition of greatness. He tells his disciples that the last shall be first and that the first shall be last. This goes far beyond mere teaching, however, as Jesus’ birth, life, ministry, and sacrificial death powerfully demonstrate and exemplify this definition of greatness. Jesus comes to earth, not to be served but to serve. This was a challenge to James and John, and it remains a challenge to us today to pursue greatness through humble servanthood.
Luke begins his Gospel account with John the Baptist preparing the way for Jesus. John is an amazing man of God, whom the Old Testament prophets, Isaiah and Micah referred to as the one who goes before the Lord and prepares the way. This is the same John who says that the one who comes after him is greater than he, whose sandals he is unworthy to untie.
Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus. He not only brings hope to a lost world; He is the very hope of God to the world, which all of scripture has been pointing to since the beginning. To celebrate the birth of Jesus is to celebrate God’s faithfulness in fulfilling his promises.
Growing as a member of the body of Christ.
“Therefore, in
experiences of fasting
we are not so much
abstaining from food as we are feasting on the word of God.”
– Richard Foster