Teaching on Sermons (Page 19)

Teaching on Sermons (Page 19)

How Jesus Wants You to Use Money, Part 2

Luke 16:9-13 Just want to invite all of you uh, to take your Bibles in hand and actually turn to Hebrews chapter 3, not preaching out of Hebrews 3, but I’m gonna use that to introduce what we’re going to talk about in Luke 16. We are in Luke 16, which is a section of Jesus’ teaching on stewardship. And I wanna begin in Hebrews, a thought comes to mind about Jesus’ use of a stewardship and want to start…

How Jesus Wants You to Use Money, Part 1

Luke 16:9 Turn to Luke 16.  We’re in Luke 16 this morning and we’re following up on this intriguing and fascinating parable from Jesus, which is about the unjust steward.  That’s what we covered last week.    Last week we really saw a scoundrel of a human being.  A steward who had been working for a very wealthy owner, landowner.  A man who cheated his way out of a personal crisis.  A predicament of his own making, which was losing his…

The Stewardship of a Scoundrel

Luke 16:1-8 Turn in your Bibles to Luke 16 and we’ll be looking at verses 1 to 13 of Luke, chapter 16.  I was speaking the other day with someone.  Both of us were expressing appreciation for all that the Lord taught us in Luke 15.  The parable of the Prodigal Son.  I had great joy in studying that section and preaching and teaching it.  I feel a, a small tinge of sadness at leaving that beautiful, rich, richly textured…

The Lost Brother

Luke 15:25-32 This morning we do have one more chance to look at Luke 15, so if you turn there in your Bibles, you’ll be right in the right place. This is the parable of two lost sons and a, a very loving father. We have in our study over the past few weeks, we’ve seen the prodigal son. We’ve looked at the loving father last week and today we come to the second son, the elder brother, who is…

The Loving Father

Luke 15:17-24 I invite you to return to Luke 15 as we continue studying the parable of the prodigal son. And today we come to the central character in the story, who is the loving father and we’re going to see his remarkable kindness shown to an undeserving prodigal.   We left the prodigal last time in some pretty dire circumstances. He was near starvation, in a pigsty, fine Jewish boy, but brought to that state, that condition in the fact…

The Lost Son

Luke 15:11-16 Well we’re in Luke 15 today, and you can turn there in your Bibles as we come to the third of the three parables that Jesus tells us in this chapter.  This is the perfectly crafted, moving, beautiful story of the prodigal son.  This has to be, by far, the best known, most famous story that Jesus ever told and for good reason.  The story is perfect in every way.  It’s exquis, exquisitely rich in its detail.  It’s…

Parables of Redemptive Joy

Luke 15:1-10 Well, we are back in Luke 15 this week and this time looking at the theme of redemptive joy in the first two parables.  Jesus gives a, as you know, a series of three parables here in Luke 15: the Lost Sheep, the Lost Coin, and the Lost Son.  Three of these parables are directed at the Pharisees and the scribes because of their, well, we just call it a poor reaction to the salvation of sinners rather…