Theme: Thanksgiving Service Folder📖🔍 Jeremiah 17:13-14 ▪ Galatians 5:16-24 ▪ ✞ Luke 17:11-19 There is an interesting connection between Sunday’s lessons. In Luke 17:10-18 ten lepers asked Jesus to have mercy on them. Jesus healed them by means of his Word. In Galatians 5:16-24, we learn that we inherited the leprous sinful self from Adam. The Holy Spirit cleansed us of the…
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Sermons on Luke
Service Folder📖🔍 Leviticus 18:1-5 ▪ Galatians 3:15-22 ▪ ✞ Luke 10:23-37 The Law cannot help us or give us life. Rather, it confines everyone under sin as wounded and naked before God (Gal. 3:15–22). So it is that two figures of the Law, the priest and the Levite, passed by the injured man on the side of the road (Luke 10:23–37). Only…
Theme: Humility – Pharisee and Publican Service Folder📖🔍 ✞ Luke 18:9-14 ▪ ✞ Matthew 9:9-13 The lowly tax collector who prayed, “God, be merciful to me, a sinner!” was the one who went down to his house justified before God, not the respectable, outwardly righteous Pharisee who trusted in himself and his own good living (Luke 18:9–14). The one who penitently despairs…
Theme: Renewed Obedience Service Folder📖🔍 Jeremiah 7:1-11 ▪ I Corinthians 12:1-11 ▪ ✞ Luke 19:41-18 In today’s Gospel (Luke 19: 41-18) Jesus weeps over Jerusalem and its Temple because of its coming destruction. Destruction would come, because the city refused to see that God visited them in the Person of Jesus. Jesus then cleansed the Temple of merchandising as a type of…
Theme: The Steward’s Shrewdness Sanctified Service Folder📖🔍 I Chronicles 29:10-13 ▪ I Corinthians 10:6-13 ▪ ✞ Luke 16:1-9 “The master commended the dishonest manager for his shrewdness” (Luke 16:1–9). The steward’s shrewdness is praiseworthy for two reasons. First, he knew the master would be merciful. He trusted that the master would honor the debts he forgave in the master’s name. In the…
Service Folder (.pdf) Service Folder (.docx) Old Testament: Jeremiah 16:14-21 Epistle: I Peter 3:8-15 Gospel: Luke 5:1-11 On this 250th birthday of our nation, we remember that many followed our forefathers risking all to fight for temporal freedom. We follow Jesus for eternal freedom, purchased by the forgiveness of sins. In that freedom, Jesus called fishermen to be fishers of men (Luke…
Service Folder Old Testament: Genesis 50: 15-21 Epistle: Romans 8: 18-23 Gospel: Luke 6: 36 “Be merciful, even as your Father also is merciful” (Luke 6:36–42). The old Adam in us wants to condemn. To condemn is to put yourself in the place of God. Jesus is our Joseph, who comforts us with words of pardon and reconciliation (Gen. 50:15–21). He…