Message
Luke 6:1 "...on the second Sabbath after the first..." Odd way of denoting the time. Luke is trying to be precise. He's the only one to use this phrase. Commentaries aren't sure exactly what is meant. The actual translation is second first Sabbath. Best consensus is the first Sabbath after the second day of Passover. …
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Luke 3:1-2 "Now in the fifteenth year..." Sets the stage in time. Mentions secular and religious leaders of the day. 3 "...preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins" Baptism, or immersion, of repentance. The message was that a person needed to recognize their sinful nature and repent of their sins to get …
Luke 1:58 "...they rejoiced with her" Rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep. We've gotten so bad today there would be derogatory remarks made. The situation was nothing but positive, yet today, our society would find something wrong with it. So glad it didn't happen there. If it did, at least …
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Mark 11:1 "...near Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives..." Small villages along the road to Jerusalem from Jericho. Pretty close if they were counted at or near the Mount of Olives which is just across the valley from Jerusalem. 13 "...perhaps He would find something on it...it was not the season …
Judges 7:19-20 "So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands. And the three companies blew the trumpets, …
Jeremiah 18:1-3 "The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words. Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels." I dreamed I went to a woodworker's shop. …
Romans 3:23 "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God" Hebrews 9:27 "...it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment" I hear much today about the social gospel. People are concerned with the trouble they see. War, famine, disease, homelessness, hopelessness. They want to help ease …
Black & White with Shades of Gray 