Tag: Luke
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The fundamental prayer – Luke 18:9-14
As we cry out to God for justice, we’re assuming we’re the good guys. We want God to bring justice because that means we’ll win, and the bad guys will get what’s coming to them. I want Jesus to return and give me what I deserve! So Jesus tells this parable to make us ask:…
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The reason to persevere in prayer (Luke 18:1–8)
This is a parable Jesus told his disciples “to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart” And we all need this encouragement, don’t we? Because prayer is hard. Especially that persistent, daily habit of praying, day after day, month after month, year after year. Why is it so hard? It’s…
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“Do not weep for me, weep for yourselves…” (Luke 23:28)
Why do Christians lament? Sometimes we lament out of sympathy, but sometimes we weep for ourselves. This is the kind of lament that Jesus calls for here.
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Who is Jesus for?
Who are the right kind of people according to Jesus? Is Jesus just for one kind of person in our world: Christians versus everyone else? Is Jesus for you?
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When rulers encounter God: sermon series
Audio from a 3-part sermon series, spanning two semesters and two testaments, at the Moore College chapel.
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Zacchaeus: the man who stopped Jesus short (Luke 19:1-10)
Jesus stopped short in Jericho because here he saw the perfect opportunity to show what his mission was all about. A man of contradictions. A humbled, even humiliated man. A lost man, raised up, found, restored.
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What do you expect from the Son of God? (Luke 4:1-30)
A sermon preached at St Augustine’s Anglican Church, Neutral Bay (Image: Flickr)
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The enemy of the best
One of the most confronting sayings by Jesus can be found in Luke 9:57-62: As they were going along the road, someone said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.” And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to…