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Luke 1:5-13
Luke emphasizes that Jesus’s story is rooted in the story of God’s earlier acts for his people. Luke’s…
Born in Bethlehem (Luke 2:4)
The place where Jesus may have been born. Early tradition may have preserved the right site for Jesus’s…
Jesus and the shepherds—Luke 2:1-14
The elite initially ignored him. God chose to reveal him to the nobodies of the day. Because God…
Trying to throw Jesus over a cliff in Luke 4:29
Some of Jesus’s own townspeople got so mad at him that for a little while they wanted to…
The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem
This is probably very close to the original site of Jesus’s birth. The tradition of the site was…
The prodigal son wanted to eat carob pods (Luke 15:16). YECH!
Why did the prodigal son want to eat carob pods? How yummy were they?
Luke’s Gospel in one hour
A brief introduction to and survey of some key themes in Luke’s Gospel:
Partying with the wrong crowd? Jesus in Luke 14
Some religious people didn’t like Jesus’s usual company at meals, but when he ate with them, they didn’t…
Tribute to Ron Sider
I am mourning today my colleague for 15 years, one of my dearest friends, Ron Sider (blogsite). I…