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"Lk 14" Tagged Teaching

Call to Radical Discipleship

Luke 14:25-33 What a joy it is to be back in the text with you today.  You can turn in your Bibles to Luke 14:25.  Luke 14:25-35 is a section that is searching and piercing.  And at the same time, it is also comforting and encouraging.  So, I think you’ll see what I mean as we read through the text.  Let’s begin…

Responding to the Invitation, Part 2

Luke 14:15 We are picking up where we left off last week in Luke 14.  So we’re coming back to Luke 14 verse 15, and the parable of the great banquet.  We got into the parable last time.  As you know, it’s a parable that Jesus gave to a room full of Pharisees and religious lawyers.  Those who are characterized, all through…

Responding to the Invitation, Part 1

Luke 14:15-20 We were in Luke 14 this morning looking at Jesus’ parable of the great banquet, which some refer to as the parable of the excluded guests. It is both of those things. It’s a parable of profound meaning of pointed significance. It’s intended to confront the falsely assured. Those in danger of rejecting God’s gracious invitation to them to come,…

Associate with the Lowly

Luke 14:12-14 Well, we are back in Luke 14. Jesus teaching on the subject of humility and he’s doing that while he is sharing company with the proud, eating a meal. He’s been invited to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees on a Sabbath day. It’s after, an after-synagogue dinner, hosted by a wealthy powerful man, probably located…

Take the Lowest Place

Luke 14:7-11 Let’s turn our attention now to Luke Chapter 14. If you’re not there, you can take your Bible and turn there to Luke 14. Last week we started into the first 24 verses, at which we said is a single unit of thought, as a single theme governing that whole section where Jesus is in the home of a Pharisee,…

The Day Humility Silenced Pride

Luke 14:1-6 Open your Bibles to the fourteenth chapter of Luke’s gospel and we are in the first few verses of Luke 14 today, in Luke 14:1-6.  And as we enter into chapter 14, I want to begin by helping you see this opening narrative in its larger context.  So let’s start by reading the first twenty four verses of Luke 14…