Luke 14:7 starts with Jesus discussing where people at a banquet sit and why. Jesus lived in an honor driven society. Status, standing, and in this case, seating near the host, […]

Throughout Luke’s gospel we read stories of the unlikely elevation and inclusion of people that would have stood out as significant to early hearers of the gospel, but 2,000 years […]

Not all judgment and condemnation come from the same place. It’s true that sometimes we judge because of feelings of superiority—moral, intellectual, spiritual. And sometimes we judge because of the […]

On four different occasions in Luke’s gospel, Jesus clashes with religious leaders over his “work” on the Sabbath (healing and feeding). Jesus doesn’t set out to start something with religious […]

There is no question that walking in the way of Jesus can be extraordinarily difficult, especially in extraordinarily divided and volatile times. Look again at the instructions Jesus gives in […]

If you asked most people about the story of Jesus’ calling of Peter, James, and John in Luke 5, they would say that what is remarkable in the story is […]

The book of Jonah tells the story of a prophet who is called to preach to a nation that he hates. And because of this hate, Jonah does everything imaginable […]

While it doesn’t quote any bible verses that I recall, the Christmas Claymation classic, Rudolf the Red-Nose Reindeer, has a very Luke 4 message. The majority of special is about the nobody’s […]