This week’s guest speaker Dwayne Jackson takes us through Luke 10:25-37 as he looks at the parable of the Good Samaritan with a special focus on racial injustice and black history.
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Category: Gospel of Luke
From Jesus to Christ // The Holy Jesus
This week we continue our study through Luke’s Gospel with a new take on a familiar story. Right after the miracle, Peter says to Jesus … “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man.” Why? What can we learn from Peter’s reaction?
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From Jesus to Christ // The Inaugural Address of Jesus
Luke 4:14-30. Jesus returns home to Nazareth full of the Spirit. He’s welcomed. He teaches. He’s praised. He’s admired. They try to kill him. WTH???
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From Jesus to Christ // The Temptation of Jesus
At Jesus’ baptism, the voice of heaven spoke ONCE. But the voice of hell keeps going and going and going. What can we learn from Jesus’ battle with temptation? What weapons does the enemy have? What weapons do we have?
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From Jesus to Christ // The Baptism of Jesus
One day when the crowds were being baptized, Jesus himself was baptized. As he was praying, the heavens opened, and the Holy Spirit, in bodily form, descended on him like a dove. And a voice from heaven said, “You are my dearly loved Son, and you bring me great joy.” – Luke 3:21-23
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From Jesus to Christ // The Announcement of Jesus
God is speaking to us today more than ever. He is speaking to us unmistakably, authoritatively, personally, when we read, hear, study and meditate on scriptures.
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From Jesus to Christ // Tween Jesus
He didn’t have to submit but He did so anyway.
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The Hope of Anna
“There was also a prophet, Anna, the daughter of Penuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old; she had lived with her husband seven years after her marriage and then was a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying. Coming up to them at that very moment, she gave thanks to God and spoke about the child to all who were looking forward to the redemption of Jerusalem.”
Luke 2:36-38
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An Honest Discussion on Doubt
This past Saturday night as a church we concluded the Gospel of Luke (chapter 24) through a virtual worship gathering. Often in the church, doubt is like a 4-letter word. You start expressing your doubts and people start avoiding eye contact, or even worse, they give you the look of judgment like you’re already half way down the highway to hell. Working through doubt is like getting an immunization for a virus; it helps ward off future disease; it can make us healthier in the long run. Faith is not the opposite of doubt; it’s the pursuit of Jesus in the midst of our doubts.
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Normalcy Bias (the road to Emmaus)
What an odd way to gather for our Easter worship service, but God made it beautiful. This week, we concluded our study in the Gospel of Luke looking at the first appearance of Jesus after his resurrection and the very first Christian converts. We all assume life will continue down this linear path, but if anything, the Coronavirus has clearly shown us otherwise.
What about death? Do you live like you have an endless supply of days, or have you stopped and considered a plan of survival when the worst case scenario happens?