February 5, 2006
Text: Luke 17:11-37 Journeying to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border of Galilee and Samaria where he encountered ten lepers outside a village. This kind of scene is becoming familiar in Luke. Jesus meets, in the course of his daily existence, the social outcast, the disenfranchised, the broken people of his world. He moved in […]
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
November 6, 2005
Text: Luke 10:25-37 One of my favorite questions Jesus’ asks in the Gospel of Luke is, “How do you read it?” An expert in the law (one of the “wise and learned” in Luke 10:21 to whom spiritual depth is often hidden) asked Jesus a question: “what must I do to inherit eternal life”(or, our […]
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
September 11, 2005
Text: Luke 5:27-39. Luke’s Jesus teaches, for the most part, at the table. But the table is more than teaching for Jesus, it is the embodiment of the kingdom of God. It is not merely oral teaching, but social demonstration of the kingdom of God. Jesus’ table exhibits a new way of living—new wineskins for […]
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Posted by John Mark Hicks