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In this passage, we hear about two healings Jesus performed, with the bleeding woman and the death of Jairus’s daughter. Dean takes us step-by-step through the passage and highlights five important things we learn about our relationship with Jesus from this story.

Simon, the Pharisee, invites Jesus to a dinner party. He fails to offer Jesus the customary greetings and honors. But a woman of the city, a known “sinner,” who joins the poor in the room has come to honor Jesus–she begins weeping, then wiping his feet with her hair, kissing them and anointing them with […]

(Unfortunately the normal audio recording process was not available this week) This week, we read about two of Jesus’s healings, one the servant of a centurion and the other a widow’s son. In covering these two stories, Johnny shows us how the stories are not so much about the healings as they are about the […]

This week, we read Luke’s representation of the Sermon on the Mount, and hear about Luke’s four Beatitudes and four Woes. Dean takes us through the passage and describes what it means to be on Jesus team, explains what it means to be in the Upside-down Kingdom, and teaches us a new word: Parenetic.

This week, we read in Luke 6 about Jesus’ confrontations with the Pharisees on the Sabbath. Johnny talks about the significance of the Sabbath in First Century Judaism, what it meant for Jesus to claim Lordship over the Sabbath, and what the Sabbath means for our own rest today.

This week, we hear the story of Jesus revealing himself to Peter through the miraculous nets overflowing with fish. Johnny talks about what it meant for Peter and the other disciples to abandon that catch, as well as their whole lives as fishermen, to follow Jesus and become fishers of men.

As Jesus begins his ministry here in Luke 4, He reads a brief passage from Isaiah 61 about the coming Messiah, before telling the crowd that “Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.” (Luke 4:21). Matt discusses the importance of Isaiah 61 as a whole chapter, and the messages of salvation, forgiveness, and […]

In this week’s sermon, we read about Jesus staying behind in Jerusalem as a twelve-year-old boy to talk to the teachers in the Temple. Johnny discusses the importance of this year in Jesus’ life, the significance of his ability to debate with the religious leaders in the temple, and how this connects to our need […]

In this first Sunday of Christmas, we hear about the second set of witnesses to Jesus: the older saints, Simeon and Anna. Dean talks about how the story of these two being included in Lukes gospel continues to show how God highlights those we might not notice, and marvels at the amount of time it […]

In our Christmas Eve service, we read from Luke 2 about Jesus’ coming to the world. Johnny talks about the hardships of the journey to Bethlehem, the contrast of Caesar Augustus and Mary, and the glory of God, come to bring good news to shepherds.

In this brief sermon, Dean narrates a story from the perspective on Zechariah about Luke 1, where he meets the angel Gabriel, he and Elizabeth have a son in their old age, and Mary comes to tell them of her child, who will be the Messiah.

In the third Sunday of Advent, the Sunday of Joy, we hear about Mary’s visit to Elizabeth from Juan Esteban in Spanish, with translation by Rod Nuñez. Juan Esteban talks about the two parts of the passage, the surprise of joy and the surprise of praise, and how we can integrate this joy and praise […]