| Title | Reference | Description | Publish Date |
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Blowing Your Life
| Luke 15:13 | You can blow your life when you are running from love. The plan is to
leave home. He does not have any goals. He is running from conviction. Many people
try to do this. | 00:00:00 |
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Coming Home
| Luke 15:20-24 | This is a home coming for the Prodigal Son. If you are a Christian there is a time
when you came home to the Father. The Prodigal has wasted his life with riotous
living and spent all that he had. | 2008-01-01 |
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Commitment Or Compromise
| Luke 9:23-24 | The figure of bearing a cross is a demand for self-denial. It is teaching for
the new recruit as well as the seasoned warrior. It is a requirement for entering
the army of God and not a call to an elite corp of super-saints. Yet it shows the
way to a deepening maturity in Christ. At each stage of growth more self-denial
is required, more painful blows to self and more reckless decisions to serve the
Lord Jesus Christ with abandonment of one's own life. | 2008-01-01 |
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Five Minutes After Death
| Luke 16:19-23 | Like it or not, we are all going to die. Man is the only creature that knows he
is going to die. People don't want to talk about death. We avoid the subject. We
look for the remote to change the channel! The destination of the species is more important than the origin of the species. | 2008-01-01 |
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Forgiving Yourself
| Luke 7:36-50 | Guilt is a cage that enslaves many. Something happened in their lives and they cannot
get through it. Guilt is an alarm clock of the soul. The problem is that despite
being forgiven by God they are still hounded by their guilt. This guilt can be used
by the Devil. You have been forgiven but you are unable to forgive yourself. They
would be set free if they could forgive themselves. If you don't deal with guilt,
the guilt will deal with you. | 2008-01-01 |
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Jesus' Temptation and Baptism
| Luke 3:1-4:14 |
The Trinity manifested itself. The Heavens open and God speaks. God can't keep silent about Jesus! The
father in Jewish Society tells them that he loves them, that God loves them and gives the a kiss. We need
godly affirming fatherhood. God can be a father to us when we don't have a father who affirms us.
| 2009-10-11 |
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Jesus The Friend Of Sinners
| Luke 15:1-32 | Jesus is the
friend of sinners. Jesus was criticised for being a friend
of sinners. It was the sinners of that day who came to hear Jesus. It does not take
much size to criticise. | 2008-01-01 |
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Jesus: The Early Years
| Luke 1-2 |
The simple greetings in a card can be difficult to start. It is no different in this gospel. Luke has a structure
that has been well thought out as you would expect from a historian. Luke starts off in the Temple in
chapter 1 and ends in chapter 2 back in the Temple.
| 2009-12-13 |
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Just Keep It Simple
| Luke 10:38-42 | In the midst of all the
demands that you have on you and all the perplexities and complications of life,
I believe that there is a walk that you can enter into that can make life less stressful.
That's all I'm talking about. I'm not talking about you shouldn't have a cell phone,
a computer and not know how to get on the internet. That's not what I'm talking
about. I'm just talking about taking the stress away. | 2008-01-01 |
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Life In The Pig Pen
| Luke 15:14-16 | God gives all of us a certain freedom. We are free to choose our actions. We can
live our life for God or not. God has given us a free will. That is why Adam and
Eve were able to choose to obey God or sin. There is a freedom that we do not
have. We do not have the freedom to choose the consequences of our actions. You are not tricking God. You will sow what you reap! | 2008-01-01 |
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Mary's Little Lamb
| Luke 2:1-7 | A little lamb was born in Bethlehem. It was no accident that Jesus was born in Bethlehem.
It is about 5 miles south of Jerusalem, It was prophesied in Micah 5:2. Around
Bethlehem shepherds raised Passover lambs. Jesus is born in a stable. Mary's little
lamb was God's lamb to the world. | 2008-01-01 |
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Overcoming Dullness Of Soul
| Luke 11:37-54 | The ministry of Jesus was counter to the culture of the world. Jesus was true to
what he believed and came into conflict with those who had "hedged out" God's law
from the people. It was the religious establishment who bore the brunt of the rebuke
from Jesus. | 2008-01-01 |
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Prayer - The Power Of Growth
| Luke 18:1-18 | We are not to faint. This woman kept on coming in prayer. Jesus is not teaching
by comparison but rather by contrast. God is not like this judge. This unjust judge
heard the persistent woman. How much more will God hear us. | 2005-10-21 |
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Stopping To Waste Time
| Luke 13:10-17 | The Sabbath is not just a good idea, it is a God idea! We all need to have a Sabbath
rest. We need to stop working and have a rest. We need it to keep our perspective.
We need to make the best use of our time but rest is not wasted time. We need to
stop so we can do things. | 2008-01-01 |
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Taking Up Your Cross
| Luke 9:23-24 | The message of the cross is the Gospel. It is God's power. To some it is a stumbling
block or foolishness. To the believer it is Christ, power and wisdom. | 2008-01-01 |
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The Father Heart Of God
| Luke 15:1-32 |
There are sheep who go astray. It happens in the church. Did Jesus take a gun and shoot it when he found it? No!
There is celebration and forgiveness.
| 2009-10-25 |
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The Kingdom Of God
| Luke 8:1-21 |
Jesus preached the gospel but not as we may understand it. Jesus had not yet died on the
cross and rose from the dead. So, what was it that Jesus preached? It was the kingdom of God.
| 2009-11-29 |
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The Priority Of Prayer
| Luke 10:38-11:13 |
Prayer needs to be our priority. There are other things that are good and important but prayer is to be our priority.
The people at the Laodicean Church had put Jesus outside and He had to knock at the door to try and get in! Other
things had taken priority.
| 2009-12-13 |
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The Rise Of Rebellion
| Luke 15:11-12 | About one third of the teaching of Jesus was in the form of parables. A parable
is something that is "placed aside". It is a story that is placed beside another
to teach something. We discover in this chapter just how important lost things are
to God. So many people today are running from the love of God. | 2008-01-01 |
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The Story Of Anna
| Luke 2:36-38 |
While Christmas can be a time of family celebration for the life of Jesus it can also be a time of hardship when
we remember loved ones who are no longer with us. Anna's life story is one overcoming loss.
| 2009-12-26 |
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The Tale Of Two Sons
| Luke 15:11-32 | God finds no joy in the death of the wicked. However, God does finds joy in the
restoration of sinners. | 2006-06-22 |
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The Turning Point
| Luke 15:17-19 | This story shows how much God loves lost people. This parable has been called the
pearl of the parables. The Prodigal Son had cashed in his inheritance and spent
it on wild living until he had nothing left and was forced to work in a pig pen.
He made the worst decision in the best place and now he makes the best decision
in the worst place. | 2008-01-01 |
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Three Things Jesus Expects Us To Do
| Luke 10:1-42 |
Jesus’ appointment of the seventy takes place after He had
defined what it means to be a disciple. If we are His disciples, we will go where He sends us and do what
He tells us to do. In this passage we see three things that Jesus expects us to do.
| 2010-03-21 |
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Unleashing Your Comeback Potential
| Luke 5:1-7 | Do you feel like you are a failure and that you can't come back? See Luke 5. It
is our defeats which educate us. The trains of failure usually runs on the tracks
of laziness. You can make a comeback. You can get back up. You can restore things.
You can reach your potential. You can't do it so long as you are sitting down thinking you are messed up and can't get up. Jesus can turn your mess ups into come backs. | 2007-08-26 |
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Worry Free Living
| Luke 12:22-32 | What is the point in worrying about something that has not happened to you yet.
Why are we not to worry or be afraid. | 2008-01-01 |