10 Jesus’s Teaching: Rich and Poor, Wealth and Possessions 10.1 Good News for the Poor 10.1.1 The Nazareth Manifesto Luke 4:18 10.1.2 The Magnificat Luke 1:46-55 10.1.3 Luke’s Beatitudes Luke 6:20-26 10.2 The Dangers of Wealth 10.2.1 The Rich Young Ruler Luke 18:18-30 10.2.2 The…
6. God calls Moses 6.1. The baby Moses Exodus 1:1-2:10 (c.1350 BC) 6.2. God appears to Moses in the Burning Bush Exodus 2:11-3:10 (c.1270 BC) 6.3. God reveals His Name to Moses Exodus 3:11-17 6.4. God gives Moses signs, and Aaron to speak for Him.…
These are the headings for the first week of our “Big Picture” trip through the whole of the Old Testament. A The beginning of God’s promises – Creation to the Patriarchs 1. Where it all began 1.1. Creation Genesis 1-2 1.2. God created Adam and…
These were the notes for this evening’s topic. 1.1 The Nazareth Manifesto Luke 4:16-30 1.1.1 The Anointed Deliverer Isaiah 61:1-3 but with a difference! 1.1.2 The widow of Zaraphath (1 Kings 17:7-25); Naaman the Syrian (2 Kings 5:1-19) 1.2 Jesus Eating with Sinners Luke 5:27-…
It was a few weeks after Jesus rose from the dead. Peter took some of the other disciples out fishing. Perhaps they just wanted to do something ordinary and mundane. Maybe especially Peter felt a sense of failure and he just wanted to get back…
These are the course notes for a lecture on the Synoptic Gospels. 5 The Kingdom of God 5.1 The Central Message of Jesus Mark 1:14-18 After John was put in prison, Jesus went into Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God. “The time has come,”…
Did you ever have a nickname? As a teacher I was known as “Mr T” obviously after my striking resemblance to the actor who played B.A. Barracus in “The A Team”. A number of the Apostles had nicknames. James and John were the Sons of…
JOHN 20 17 Jesus said (to Mary), “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am returning to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’…
JOHN 19 28 Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, ‘I am thirsty.’ 29 A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of…
THE SEVEN LAST WORDS FROM THE CROSS LUKE 23 33 When they came to the place called the Skull, they crucified him there, along with the criminals—one on his right, the other on his left. 34 Jesus said, ‘Father, forgive them, for they do not…
Last week we started to look at the four passages in the second half of the book of the prophet Isaiah collectively called “The Songs of the Servant.” We saw how Isaiah pointed forward to the Messiah, the servant anointed by God not only to…
Who was responsible for the crucifixion? Who bears the blame for the Jesus’s death? On the night before the cross, Jesus faced three trials. The first was in the middle of the night on which he was arrested, as Jesus was taken before the High…
We have said before that Isaiah is sometimes known as the Fifth Gospel or the Gospel in the Old Testament. No other Old Testament book is as full of God’s wonderful promises of salvation. No other book contains as many prophecies concerning the Lord Jesus…
By my desk I keep a hilarious and inspiring book called The Book of Heroic Failures. Back when I was a school teacher whenever I had a bad day it used to cheer me up with stories of other people who had had even greater…
“His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness, but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes that seemed almost of the…
The Bible makes clear the reality of personal demonic spirits, and also the ministry of the church to continue Christ’s work of proclaiming the Kingdom in word and in actions through healing and casting out demons. Scripture and church history recognise different degrees of “demonization”.…
John 17:3 Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. And this is the real and eternal life: That they know you, The one and only true God, And Jesus Christ, whom…
There is an expression people often use when we are talking to another person and getting absolutely nowhere. When they just don’t seem to be listening and whatever we say we can’t make them understand. They just couldn’t care less about what we are talking…
What is Lent? Lent is the time to prepare your heart and mind for Easter. Historically, Christians have spent 40 days in fasting and prayer to think about all that Jesus gave up for us on the cross – his human life. Historically, in some…
What is “Victorious Christian Living” We are not talking about “success” or “popularity” in human terms. We are not talking a worldly false gospel of “health, wealth and prosperity”. Victory in Christian living means victory over temptation, victory over the devil, victory over everything which…
This was not a sermon but rather a discussion of the Synoptic Problem – how is it that Matthew, Mark and Luke’s Gospels are so very similar in places and yet so different in others? These were the notes for the discussion. What Luke says…
