Luke 5:27-32
The religious leaders of Jesus’ day excelled at erecting barriers for people to get to God–especially those they considered undesirable. Jesus, however, broke down those barriers. In this passage, we see how he went to those who were social and religious outcasts.
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Luke 2:8-20
The word is spread when a baby is born. Phone calls are made, pictures are posted, texts are sent, and cards are sent out. In this passage, we see the most important birth announcement of all. This birth announcement proclaimed “good news of great joy that will be for all the people.” What made Jesus’ birth so important that a multitude of angels declared, “Glory to God in the Highest?”
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Luke 2:1-7
After traveling through the first chapter of Luke, we now come to the main event in his birth narrative. Jesus is born. But few things about his birth are what we would have expected. He was born to a peasant couple, in an animal shelter, laid in a filthy manger. To top it all off, his first visitors were lowly shepherds. What did all of this mean? Why was the Savior of the world born under such humble circumstances?
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Luke 1:57-80
The people asked, “What then shall this child be?” He would be a prophet in the spirit and power of Elijah. Not only did he look like the great prophet, but his voice thundered like him as he proclaimed repentance for the forgiveness of sins. Who was this man John? And what was his message? This sermon explains the mission and message of John.
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Luke 1:39-56
Mary and Elizabeth had both received divine revelation about their respective miraculous pregnancies. When Mary went to visit Elizabeth, we see how God acted in them to further strengthen each other’s faith, and, by extension, ours today.
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Luke 1:26-38
After appearing to Zechariah in the temple. God spoke again six months later. This time it was far away from Israel’s religious and cultural center. He spoke to a simple girl named Mary in a small, rural town called Nazareth. His message was the most incredible of all, “the child to be born to you will be called holy–the Son of God.”
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Luke 19:1-10
In the parables of Luke 15, Jesus asked “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it” (Lk.15:4)? Now in the story of Zacchaeus Jesus literally goes in search of his sheep. By observing Jesus’ search for the lost, we can learn a lot about personal evangelism.
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Luke 15
When you lose something, what determines how long you search for it? It all depends on how much you value what you’ve lost. Jesus told three stories to illustrate this point in Luke 15. We’ll see how Jesus both searches lost people and rejoices when they are found, while the Pharisees do neither. Are you more like Jesus who searched or the Pharisees who did not?
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Luke 15:1-2
Jesus invested a lot of time with sinners, and the religious leaders didn’t like it. He told three of his most famous parables in response to their complaints. Why did he risk his reputation eating and drinking with such undesirable persons? Why didn’t the Pharisees agree with his methods? This simple introduction to chapter fifteen reveals deep insights about both Jesus’ and the Pharisees’ attitudes toward the lost.
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Matthew 1:18-25; Luke 1:31-35
If Jesus is the legal son of Joseph, then he is the birth son of the virgin Mary. We all echo Mary’s response to this news, “How will this be, since I am a virgin?”. Drawing upon a few texts, we’ll seek to answer two large questions about the birth of Christ: how can a virgin give birth? and can God become a man?
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