Before I approach a person to resolve conflict I need to want their good and be aware of my own sin.
While God is Spirit and has no body that changed when God's Son took on flesh and permanently became one of us and one with us. Jesus is one person with two natures; truly God and truly human.
Jesus places the best and worst that his nation could produce in the temple before God to show once and for all that a person is put right with God not by our goodness but by his mercy.
God's heart is seen in three ways; He seeks and saves the lost, He rejoices when the lost are found and He expects us to rejoice with Him. In other words, to do on earth what is happening in heaven.
If there’s one thing we all are, it’s that we're busy. In Luke 10 we find the closest sermon Jesus gave to a sermon on busyness. This is a special Mother’s Day sermon where Teresa also reflects on this passage as a mother.
Jesus Christ rose from the dead: but what does that mean for your life? And what does it mean for your death?
As Jesus is placed on trial he testifies that he is God's King, God's Son and God's man who is entrusted with all of glory honour and power at God's right hand.
Luke is giving a blow-by-blow account of Jesus' journey to the cross. Here we see two of Jesus' inner circle abandon him in the form of Judas' betrayal and Peter's denial. From this tragic story comes lessons for disciples and would-be disciples of Jesus.
In this passage Jesus is betrayed, denied and abandoned by the 12. In the midst of the rejection Jesus names the sins but does not retaliate.
What does adversity reveal to us about the heart of Jesus?