Sermons on Luke (Page 11)
Your Sins Are Forgiven You
Luke 5:17-26 Please turn in your copy of the scripture to the book of Luke. Our reading from Luke’s gospel today is chapter five, verses 17 through 26. We’re picking up where we left off two weeks ago. This was to be last week’s sermon. We’re in a little series with Advent as we make our way through Luke, but also with a couple Sundays leading up to Christmas. We want to explore how Jesus life and ministry shows the…
Cleansed By Jesus
Luke 5:12-16 Please turn in your copy of God’s word to Luke, to Luke chapter five. Our reading today is verses. 12 through 16, Luke chapter 5 verses 12 through 16. Over the next couple of Sundays with the observation of Advent, we want to plow our way through Luke in the same sequence we’ve been going, but we want to look at Jesus’ ministry of healing, of preaching, and proclaiming good news in light of the grand theme that…
I Will Make You Fishers of Men
Luke 5:1-11 Let’s hear God’s word together, this from Luke’s gospel, chapter five, beginning at verse one. And it says, on one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him, to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them, and they were washing their nets. Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, he asked him to…
All in a Day’s Work
Luke 4:31-41 Please turn in your copy of the scriptures to the gospel of Luke. Our reading from God’s word today is Luke chapter four, verses 31 to 37. And if you’d like to use the pew Bible, you can find that on page 860. We’re making our way through Luke’s gospel and we are seeing Jesus sent by the father approved by the father. And we’re now seeing as he ministers through teaching and healing and casting out demons.…
Breaking Up Appearances
Luke 4:14-30 Please turn in your copies of the scriptures to the gospel of Luke to the fourth chapter. Our reading from Luke’s gospel today is chapter four, verses 14 through 30. And as we have made our way through Luke so far, verse by verse, we have seen that Jesus, the eternal son of God, has become man through the promise of God, through the work of the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary. He was…
Resist the Devil and He Will Flee
Luke 4:1-13 Please turn in your copies of the scriptures to Luke’s gospel chapter four. Today’s reading and preaching is from verses one through 13. These are the account of the temptation of the Lord Jesus. We remember that our Lord is being prepared for his public ministry as the recreator and the redeemer of all things, and that the Holy Spirit has been upon him. He has been conceived by the Holy Ghost. He has grown in wisdom and…
The Second Adam Comes
Luke 3:23-38 Let’s hear God’s word together. This is Psalm 84. It says, to the choir master, according to the Gethsemane, a Psalm of the sons of Korah. And it begins in verse one by saying, how lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord of Hosts. My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the Lord. My heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God. Even the sparrow finds a home in the swallow, a nest for…
Preaching New Life in a Wasteland
Luke 3:1-20 Please turn in your scriptures to the gospel of Luke to chapter 3. Today, our reading is Luke’s gospel, chapter 3, verses 1 through 20. And you can find that in the pew Bible on page 858. If you would like to use that copy of God’s word. Let us hear God’s word together. In the 15th year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being the tetrarch of Galilee, and…
In My Father’s House
Luke 2:21-40 Please turn in your copies of the Word of God to the Gospel of Luke, to chapter 2. We want to pick up our reading in Luke’s Gospel, chapter 2, at verse 39 and 40, and then pick up with the passage listed in your bulletin today, which is verses 41 through 52. You’ll notice as you look at Luke chapter two, verse 40, and then also verse 52, that both speak about Jesus growing physically, spiritually, and…
The Consolation of Israel
Luke 2:21-40 Please turn in your copy of the Word of God to the Gospel of Luke to chapter 2. Our reading today is Luke chapter 2, verses 21 through 40. We are making our way through Luke’s gospel and we have. seen the promises of Jesus being born, the promises of what he will do. And now we get into his early life, very early life. In fact, his eighth day and his 40th day. But we catch a…
The Fullness of Time Has Come!
Luke 2:1-20 Our reading is Luke chapter two, verses one through 20. We have, as you are keenly aware, Christmas in September. Somebody was asking me the other day, what am I going to do when it comes to Advent? And I just said, you wait and see. Luke chapter two, beginning at verse one. In those days, A decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration when Quirinius was…
Zechariah Changes His Tune!
Luke 1:57-80 Please turn in your copy of the word of God to Luke’s gospel. Our reading today is Luke’s gospel chapter one, verses 57 through 80. This is the story of the birth of John the baptizer. This is also the story of Zachariah who had been, was stricken mute when Gabriel announced to him that he would have a son in his old age. And we will see what Zachariah says when he’s unable to speak. He gives…