So here is the sum of it. Jesus has been describing a way to live governed by God’s principles, life God’s way, a heart being filled with God. This happens…
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It’s no accident, no coincidence, that temptation follows baptism. John offered a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. Jews were familiar with the forgiveness of sins: they gloried…
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Though Luke is a Gentile, a Christian, and one of Paul’s key helpers, and, as such, probably not very concerned with the details of Jewish law, he nonetheless is careful…
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It’s not really so easy to look at a baby and see the Word of God. Oh, we see a baby and think how precious and amazing—a baby most definitely…
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More than the other three tellings of the Jesus story, Luke keeps the angels before us. Those angels are busy! It’s as if most people had stopped really expecting anything…
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Through Paul’s letters, we learn that Luke was a companion and co-laborer with Paul, who calls Luke, “the beloved physician” (Col 4:14). Unlike every other writer in the Bible, Luke…
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Those who have spent a long time studying Mark bracket verses 9-20. The scholarly consensus is that Mark’s own original account ends with verse 8. At some later time—not necessarily…
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My phone buzzes at odd, unpredictable hours, especially around the big holidays: amber alerts—child abductions. Often at those times of the year, it seems one parent is taking a child…
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It can feel like there’s so much a Christian has to give up, to be a Christian. If it were just a matter of giving up things like kale, I…
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I suppose there are those here who know of Marfa—so chic—but if you kept on driving along Highway 90, and driving and driving, like you really had to get to…
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