GIVING

TO MEASURE UP. While religious leaders seek ways to attack, Jesus teaches us to help and support others.  We are not naturally giving, so we must have help from God if we will give and forgive like Jesus.  To be his we must be like him, so we need his help. Luke 6 1 And

TIME TO CHOOSE

NOT WHAT THEY EXPECTED Jesus shows power from God, but some can never think outside of their self-important religious needs.  They pick nits about their religious rules, but miss the greater gift of God. Luke 5 1 And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God,

REJECTED SON

NEVER ENOUGH Jesus has a season of demonstration of his power.  People seek him but some cannot accept that someone of their own community has such power. Luke 4 1 And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,  2 Being forty days tempted

EXPECTATIONS

AS PLANNED John had an assignment introducing the world to a greater being, God in the flesh.  The world wasn’t sure who this would be or when he would come.  But they were blessed to be the witnesses of greatness in the flesh. Luke 3 1 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of

HIS FATHER’S BUSINESS

EARLY WARNINGS Early in the childhood of John and Jesus there were angelic and prophetic announcements of their future roles.  Zacharias the father of John was used in these prophesies too. Luke 2 1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world

THE POWER IS PROCLAIMED part two

THE POWER IS PROCLAIMED part two Early in the childhood of John and Jesus there were angelic and prophetic announcements of their future roles.  Zacharias the father of John was used in these prophesies too. LUKE 1 part two 39 And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into

THE POWER IS PROCLAIMED part one

THE POWER IS PROCLAIMED part one Luke has decided to add his first-hand account of the life and death of Jesus.  The first messages to Mary and Zacariah were that all things are possible for God.  And a godly king is one of those possible things that will come to be. Luke 1 1 Forasmuch

COME AGAIN

GRADUAL REVELATION These disciples were still thinking about how to deal with the death of Jesus.  Their memory of his words did not fully equip them to deal with him being alive after all that.  They planned to honor him in death even as he was preparing them to receive him as eternal life. Mark

NO TURNING BACK part two

NO TURNING BACK part two Jesus was destined to die, but the purpose of God was about to come to life in the face of seeming defeat.  Mark 15 part two 21 And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear

NO TURNING BACK part one

NO TURNING BACK part one Pontius Pilate was a Roman ruler, and he didn’t see any crime in the ministry of Jesus.  He recognized the jealousy of the priests and offered to release Jesus to the people.  But he saw the corrupt religious leaders push the vote to a zealot Barabbas instead.  Free elections do