Overcoming Anxiety
A Heart for Kingdom Treasure
Luke 12:32-34 I invite you to turn in your Bibles to Luke 12. We’re going to be looking at the final few verses in what has been a hugely, hugely encouraging section. We’re going to start reading back in Luke 12:13. I just want to read that whole section to get the fuller context in front of us. So look at Luke 12:13. “Someone in the crowd said to Jesus, ‘Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.’ …
Live with a Kingdom Perspective
Luke 12:29-32 We are in, as you know, Luke Chapter 12, but that’s not where I want you to turn to first in your Bibles. Not yet. I want you to begin this morning a few chapters earlier, in Luke Chapter 9, Jesus’ call to Christian discipleship, which begins in Luke 9:23. Back when we studied this text, we recognized that Jesus’ call to discipleship really is a radical call. It strikes our ears as rather startling and that is…
What Not to Worry About
Luke 12:22-28 Well, we are in Luke’s gospel—Luke, chapter 12—and we are looking at the subject of anxiety. If you’re a bottom-line kind of person, I’ll let you know up front that Jesus is against it. You need to know more than that, but Jesus understands worry and anxiety. He knows exactly where those sins come from. He also knows that there is no need for it. And so Jesus commands us believers in clear, very direct language, “Do not…
The Parable of the Covetous Fool
Luke 12:16-21 We are continuing our study in Luke Chapter 12 in the theme we started last week. So if you could find your way to Luke 12, a section on covetousness that started in Luke 12:13 and following. There are a few things I wanted to cover last week that I didn’t get to, but that is one of the benefits of expository preaching, that I get to chop it off where I want to and then pick it…