Sermons on Luke (Page 6)
What God Gives
What God Gives 8th Pentecost Hosea 11:1-11 Luke 12:13-21 I’m sure you’re familiar with a quote by George Santayana, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” It’s a great way to remind ourselves to learn our history lessons, and to let history inform our decision-making in the present. Well, for the next five weeks, I am going to be 1. Reaching back into some of the more ancient history in our faith; 2. Listening to what ancient prophets had to say to…
Keep Choosing Christ
Keep Choosing Christ 6th Pentecost Colossians 1:15-28 Luke 10:38-42 One day, a woman was having her hair done at a salon, and the conversation turned to God. The hairdresser voiced her belief that there must not be a God, because there was so much tragedy in the world—people being ill, children being abused, violence happening everywhere—you get the idea. “There must not be a God because God wouldn’t allow these things to happen.” The woman getting her hair done didn’t agree with this view,…
In Your Right Mind
In Your Right Mind 2nd Pentecost 1 Kings 19:1-15a Luke 8:26-39 Have you ever had experiences in which you felt like a stranger in a strange land? Where maybe you wondered if you were in a dream? Where things didn’t make sense as much as they normally do? A time when you might say, “We’re not in Kansas anymore, Toto!”? I spent a summer in Georgia when I was 19, and the weather and the local attitudes and the strange speech…
Adulation!
Adulation! Palm Sunday Psalm 118:19-29 Philippians 2:5-11 Luke 19:28-40 Intro: You may know that the Japanese Imperial Army ran the deadliest prison camps in World War II. At one camp, starving military prisoners of war were huddled in dozens of bamboo huts. They had experienced terrible deprivation and cruelty under the iron fist of the camp commander. But it was Christmas! They had been told that there would be NO religious celebration in the camp. But about midnight,…
Welcome, Sinners!
March 31, 2019 Psalm 32 2 Cor. 5:16-21 Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 Intro: Home. HOME. I hope that, when I say this word, it conjures up for you images of peace and security and happiness. For some, home is a certain place, like a little village in Nova Scotia. For others, it’s a specific building. And for others, it is a person or group of people with whom one really feels “at home.” Like the young adolescent who had just discovered…