Text: Luke 24:44-53 | Listen to Message The How And Why of Mission No shortage of material has been written on “The Great Commission” – Jesus’ call to his followers (including the modern church) to go into all the world and proclaim the Gospel. Usually the emphasis falls on the command part of this, which is […]

Text: Luke 24:13-45 | Listen to Message The Heart & Soul of The Whole Bible It’s such an odd and inexplicable story. How could some of Jesus’ closest friends walk and talk with him for hours and not even recognize that it’s him? I’m referring, of course, to that first Easter Sunday when Jesus joined two […]

Text: Genesis 3:1-13, 21 | Listen to Message Trading Dishonor for Honor In Part I, we talked about what shame is and where it leads if you don’t respond to it in a healthy way. Honestly, Part I was pretty discouraging – and was never meant to be read as a standalone piece. While it helps […]

Text: Genesis 3:1-13, 21 | Listen to Message Grasping for Fig Leaves Even if we struggle to define it, we all know shame the moment we feel it. Ever since our first father and mother, shame has been a part of our human experience. The moment Adam and Eve sinned that very first sin, they sensed […]

Text: Luke 22:63-23:25 | Listen to Message Thoughts on Putting God in The Dock One of the most bizarre things about the last day of Jesus’ life (pre-resurrection) is how many people simultaneously felt comfortable acting as his judge, jury, and executioner. Think about it: Sinful human beings put the Son of God on trial, found […]

Text: Luke 22:31-34, 54-62 | Listen to Message When You Fail The Unfailing God He boasted, “Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!” He promised, “Though they all fall away, I will never fall away!” He bragged, “Even if I must die with you, I will never deny you!” […]

Text: Luke 22:35-53 | Listen to Message Falling Apart for You Over the course of history, millions of martyrs have faced horrific executions more stoically, and with more apparent bravery, than the Jesus we find in The Garden of Gethsemane on the night he was betrayed. Have you ever stopped to think about that? The physician […]

Text: Luke 22:24-34 | Listen to Message The Rightside-Up World of Jesus How do you define “greatness”? What makes a person great or important? What, to you, are the primary indicators of a person’s significance? The world defines greatness in terms of power. In various contexts, that power might be exercised as brute force, authority, or […]

Text: Luke 22:1-23 | Listen to Message A Divine Conspiracy of Grace On the night of “The Last Supper,” two separate conspiracies that pursued diametrically opposite ends converged in the death of Jesus on a cross. Israel’s religious leaders had wanted Jesus dead for a long time. Though he gave ample evidence that he was the […]

Text: Luke 21:5-38 | Listen to Message Jesus’ Take on The End Times It’s been said that talking about the end of the world always seems to bring out the crazy in some people (Philip Graham Ryken, Reformed Expository Commentary: Luke, Vol. 2, p. 413). You know the types: I call them preppers, preservationists, and prophets. […]