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Beginnings and Endings As we go through the Gospel of Luke we need to be aware of something. Time is not necessarily a linear thing. The events have been organized to tell a theological story, but their location is important and can tell us something. We are going to cover quite a bit today, and it may…

Fooling Around If you have noticed we are seeing more interactions with the followers, detractors, and the environment around Jesus. This provides opportunities for us to see how Jesus relates to people and his environment, and through this we can see how Jesus is accomplishing his mission. When we see…

Sea Demons As we work our way through the Gospel of Luke, we are going to come across some events that are critical to the identity of Jesus. These events are central to the storyline of scripture, the cosmic plan of God, but often, we reduce these events to their “natural” meanings to explain them away.…

Parables are made up stories that are Hard to Hear Last week we quickly moved through some pretty interesting things: Jesus heals a Roman Officer’s servant Jesus raises a widows son John the Baptist (Jesus’ cousin) is not sure who Jesus is Jesus has some hard words for “this generation” (later) Jesus…

Introduction We are going through the Gospel of Luke and stopping along the way to look at certain events in more detail. Last week we introduced the concept that: Jesus has joined a cosmic plan already in progress And when we follow Jesus, we become part of that plan Now he is showing us how we can…