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Luke 14:25-35: Count the Cost
Ezra 8, Proverbs 6, Luke 14:25-35, 1 Timothy 4 Luke 14:25-35: Jesus is surrounded by all the markings of great success because “great crowds” accompanied him. With such popularity, you would have thought ...
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Luke 14:15-24: A Great Banquet
Ezra 7, Proverbs 5, Luke 14:15-24, 1 Timothy 3:11-18 Luke 14:15-24: Jesus’ teaching about dinners and banquets, and the seats of honor at such celebrations, causes one of his listeners to offer a ...
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Luke 14:1-14: The Paradoxical Virtue of Humility
Ezra 6, Proverbs 4, Luke 14:1-14, 1 Timothy 3:1-10 Luke 14:1-14: (Luke 14:1-6) It’s another Sabbath encounter. Some background here may help. Because the Israelite people had been sent into exile for breaking ...
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Luke 13:22-35: Blessed Is He Who Comes in the Name of the Lord
Ezra 4-5, Proverbs 3, Luke 13:22-35, 1 Timothy 2 Luke 13:22-35: (Luke 13:22-30) A person comes to Jesus with an apparently important and genuine question: will only a few be saved? But while ...
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Luke 13:10-21: Glorious Things
Ezra 3, Proverbs 2, Luke 13:10-21, 1 Timothy 1:12-21 Luke 13:10-21: (Luke 13:10-17) A woman who is disabled has been so for 18 years. Can you see her? Bent over, unable to straighten ...
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Luke 13:1-9: Fruit in Keeping with Repentance
Ezra 1-2, Proverbs 1, Luke 13:1-9, 1 Timothy 1:1-11 Luke 13:1-9: (Luke 13:1-5) Jesus is confronted by a very real human tragedy of barbaric proportions. Pilate had not only killed some Galileans, but ...
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