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Blessed Be - The Poor Luke 6:20 “Then He lifted up His eyes toward His disciples, and said: “Blessed are you poor, For yours is the kingdom of God.” Luke 6:24 “But woe to you who are rich, For you have received your consolation.” This week we would like to look at the Beatitudes. Most people are familiar…

Good morning, turn in your Bibles with me to Luke chapter 6. We live in a day an age where there is much confusion about truth. There are some people today who believe that truth is not relevant, or you can make truth whatever you want it to be. A man can now choose to be a woman or even worse go into…

The Habit of Solitude Raise your hand if you have a difficult time slowing your mind. Now raise your hand if you didn’t hear what I said because your mind was somewhere else. As amazing of a person as Amy is, this is something that we are both guilty of. In fact, the most common question we ask each…

Sermon on the Plain: Blessings and Woes Last week we looked at Jesus’ choosing of his Apostles and the formation of a new community united by devotion to Jesus. In this formation of a new community Jesus needs to teach and train his disciples and apostles what following him is all about. I want you to…

A couple of weeks ago, we left off with Jesus naming His disciples. If you remember, I said it reminding me of a pick up basketball game where you would pick teams, except Jesus picked 12 to be on His team. There were still more that followed Him, but He chose 12 to be in His inner circle and then He…

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What does a transformed like really look like? Good morning. Turn with me to Luke chapter 5. As you are making your way to Luke 5 today we once again see the Lord ministering to someone, however today we see how the Lord is ministering to an individual who was considered the worst of the worse, a social…

Would you turn with me to Luke chapter 4 today? I hope that you have brought your Bibles so that you can follow along with me. The good doctor Luke has been showing us the early life and ministry of Jesus and really detailing many events of His Galilean ministry. We have seen the details of His baptism,…

Intro Across the days of your life you may face several key moments where you are faced with a call that could change your life forever. Perhaps it is the moment when you received an offer from your employer. Perhaps it was when someone proposed marriage to you. Perhaps it was when you received your…

Created for Community I want to think about some high level stuff for just a moment. Before the creation of the heavens and the earth God existed. We can all agree to that, the God we serve existed in eternity past. He was, is, and ever will be. Now prior to our creation, God existed in perfect harmony…

Struck with astonishment By this time in ministry Jesus is bringing out lots of different thoughts and emotions. After the paralytic it was astonishment and fear, bringing glory to God (5:26) After the leper it drew even larger crowds wanting healing (5:15) When calling Peter, James, John, Andrew it…

How many of you had the page of MVP’s on the back pages of your high school yearbook? You know the one’s that said, “Most Likely to Succeed.” Or, “Most Athletic.” How about “Cutest Couple?” I never made any of those pages. I don’t even think I made the top 10. Here in a little bit we are going to name…

Good morning, turn with me to Luke chapter 6. One of the things that we know to be true of Christ is that he went after people so that they would follow Him. We see this in Matthew chapter 4. Matthew 4:19 , “Follow me and I will make you fishers of men.” Christ was a fisher of men. If you have ever been…

The Purpose Fascination - Discovery - Identity - Authenticity One day, Napoleon was speaking of the Divinity of Christ; when General Bertrand said:— “I can not conceive, sire, how a great man like you can believe that the Supreme Being ever exhibited himself to men under a human form, with a body, a…

Table Talk One of the most interesting things about Jesus’ ministry is the he didn’t sit isolated from people. He didn’t sit in his ivory tower wanting people to come to him. Rather he was out and about with the people. He did this in a variety of ways, but one of the key ways that Luke highlights this…

Luke 6:12-26 In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God. And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew,…

Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath Maybe your bible has some headers in it, if it does it may say that “Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath. A few reminders The Sabbath was a day, and was a holy day ( Exo20:8 ) It was a day of rest, a sanctified day ( Exo16:30 ; Gen2:2-3 ) Sunday is not the Sabbath it is the Lord’s…

And they said to him, “The disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink.” And Jesus said to them, “Can you make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and…

Recap from last week: 38 Then Jesus answered, “Will you really lay down your life for me? Very truly I tell you, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times! Jesus just tells Peter that he was going to deny Him Then He tells him 1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God;…

What is one of the most important things we can do as Christians? We can think of all the “good things”, tithe, evangelize, be faithful to attend service, be a “good” person, treat others well, and we can go on and on. But in reality, should one of the most important things we do not be prayer? As I…

The Greatness of God’s Love 1 Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. 2 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that…

“Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.” -Thomas Watson Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”…

The Lord of the Sabbath As we’ve been looking at the last few weeks, the section of Luke’s Gospel from chapter 5:17-6:11 focuses on 5 different interactions that Jesus has with some of the Pharisees. As his popularity grows, so does the concern with his teaching and preaching. Remember, the Pharisees…

- Sabbath was the best day of the Jewish week - The law permitted picking grain for sustenance for travelers but not harvesting with a sickle. - - Deut. 23:24-25 “If you go into your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, as many as you wish, but you shall not put any in your bag. If you…