"Luke" Tagged Teaching (Page 26)
A Startling Answer to Prayer
Luke 1:8-13 So, as we saw last time, the story we just kind of dipped our toe into the water a little bit—that story began with a faithful couple, an older couple—a righteous priest named Zechariah and his righteous wife Elizabeth, and as we talked about in some detail last time, they were living in some very, very dark times, this couple. The land was ruled at the time by Rome; it was governed by a tyrant, a brutal tyrant…
The Parents of the Forerunner
Luke 1:5-7 And, as we noted before, Luke goes further back than any other gospel writer in telling the story about Jesus’ life and ministry. He goes all the way back to the angelic announcement of the birth of John the Baptist. Why does he do that? Is he just trying to show up the other gospel writers? No, he’s got a point. You have to keep in mind it had been more than 400 years since anybody had…
Gospel Certainty for Gentile Sinners, Part 1
Luke 1:1-4 Now a reasonable question at this point is to ask is “Why?” Why launch into a long study on the Gospel of Luke? Why chew up all that time, spending all that time in the pulpit in one author’s writings? Won’t that cause us to become a bit out of balance? Whether or not you are asking questions like that or thinking things like that, I would like to provide some justification for why we’re venturing into a…