Luke 2:25-35; Advent season doesn’t abruptly conclude with Luke’s birth narrative and the shepherd’s visit. A short time after Christ’s birth, Joeeph and Mary took him to the temple in Jerusalem to fulfill the mandates of the Mosaic law. Unknown by them, the Holy Spirit had prompted an elderly man by the name of Simeon […]

Luke 2:1-7, 19-20; The birth of Christ given in greater detail by Luke than the other three gospel authors. Joseph had to register in Bethlehem, his ancestral home due to an edict from Roman emperor Caesar Augustus. So he traveled the roughly 100 miles south with his new wife Mary, who was well along in […]

Luke 1:39-45; 57-66; Continuing in Luke’s gospel account of the birth narrative of John and Jesus, Mary traveled 80-100 miles south to visit pregnant relative Elizabeth. When she arrived, Luke records the unborn John reacting powerfully to the presence of Mary and the unborn Jesus Christ. Elizabeth is filled with the Holy Spirit and proclaims […]

Luke 126-38; Six months after the Lord send the angel Gabriel to Zechariah with the prophesy of a coming son, Gabriel was again instructed to visit another person. Instead of an elderly priest serving in Jerusalem, his mission was to a young virgin in the little town of Nazareth in Galilee. Her name was Mary […]

Luke 1:16-25; Luke begins his gospel account with the startling visitation of the angel Gabriel to elderly priest Zechariah. It had been over 400 years since the Lord sent a messenger angel to disclose His plans for the coming of Messiah. Zechariah was told his elderly wife Elizabeth would conceive and bear a son to […]

Psalm 100: Our Thanksgiving season message focused upon David’s wonderful song of thanfulness and praise to the Lord. Key aspects to a proper heart of worship is having a right view of God as Creator and the keeper of His people. His love endures forever.

Matthew 26:14-29; Our monthly observance of the Lord’s Supper is in obedience to Christ’s instructions to “do this in remembrance of me“. While the focus of the Last Supper is a foreshadowing of the events of Christ’s passion, the greater context reveals a theme of betrayal. Judas has offered up his services to the Jewish […]

John 20:19-29; The shallowness of the Eleven was revealed by the events of Gethsemane, following the Triumphal Entry of Palm Sunday. Jesus repeatedly found them fast asleep, when they should have been praying for their spiritual protection. Following the arrest, crucifixion and burial of Jesus, the disciples were gathered together in a secrent room with […]

Mark 14:32-42; Christ’s welcome to Jerusalem in the famous Triumphal Entry, but was really a facade, an illusion that the hearts of the crowd were really with Him. Mark instead records that Jesus wept as he neared the place where He knew he would soon be put to death. Following the Last Supper, Jesus took […]