Paster Scott’s sermon Sunday focused attention on the primary focus of Luke was the fact that John the Baptizer was great in God’s eyes. He was great before he had accomplished anything. He was great before he began is “mission work”. God had called him to be the forerunner of Jesus and he was – […]

Three very interesting stories are found in Luke, chapter 8.  A demon possessed man; a woman with a severe bleeding problem which as afflicted her for years, and the death of 12 year old girl.  Our own Martin Rossol looked at these three stories and tied them to the first question of the Catechism. If […]

Our own elder Abraham Lee took a look at the the story of Peter’s early exposure to Jesus. Peter is a career fisherman. He is a craftsman of his trade. What is his reaction, his response when an itinerant preacher gives him “fishing instructions”?  His response both to the request and even more so to […]

The second Sunday of Advent Pastor Dan explores on of the best known and well loved ‘songs’ in all Scripture: Mary’s Song which we also know as the “Magnificat”.  Mary’s entire being erupting in adoration, in wonder, in praise, in glorifying the Lord of Hosts who has blessed not only she- a humble peasant teenager […]

What can you say, or think, about a King who wouldn’t save himself?

We, in America, do not like to talk about death. We have many avoidance tactics to keep this subject at bay. Not so in Jesus day. In his sermon, Tim Whalen takes us through the account in Luke’s Gospel where the Sadducees  try to trip Jesus up with a question about the after-life. Well, you […]

Today we celebrate a bittersweet day in the Christian year, alternately called Palm Sunday and Passion Sunday.  Luke 19:28-44 28 And when he had said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.  29 When he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount that is called Olivet, he sent two of the […]

What “good news” is there when someone calls you “a brood of vipers”?  Dr. Luke helps his readers see that while there is a call for repentance and of coming judgement, that the good new, the “Gospel” is that John the Baptizer as well as Jesus tell us that that there is still time to […]