Category Archives: Luke

Feet People

Posted on August 28, 2015 by Pete

If I have the picture right in my mind, they were feet people. The scenario Jesus speaks about in my reading this morning is one in which there are some reclining at a banquet table and others who are serving … Continue reading →

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Not Really the Last Supper

Posted on August 27, 2015 by Pete

The scene has been immortalized. That classic rendering of Jesus and His disciples reclining at the table partaking of that final Passover before He would be taken and crucified. Every time we as believers remember Jesus in the Lord’s Supper, … Continue reading →

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Rejoicing from the Throne

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Pete

Honestly, it’s been a game changer. One word, rendered differently in the ESV than the other translations, has opened my understanding to a passage which for years I thought I had understood. One word has shifted my focus . . … Continue reading →

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Appropriate Worship

Posted on June 25, 2015 by Pete

Juxtaposition. I am no English major, but that’s what I think the literary device being used in Luke 7 is . . . juxtaposition. One person is placed up against another for the purpose of comparison and contrast. One set … Continue reading →

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We Dance

Posted on June 24, 2015 by Pete

If they were kids, says Jesus, they’d be that group of kids that just couldn’t play well with others. No matter the game, if it wasn’t their idea they’d just take their ball and go home. Unless they were “first … Continue reading →

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A Divine Visitation

Posted on June 23, 2015 by Pete

If there’s any place I think someone wants to be inconspicuous at, it’s at a funeral. Beyond the focus placed on the loved one lost, the attention then belongs to the grieving ones left behind. But I remember once stepping … Continue reading →

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Let Down the Nets

Posted on June 10, 2015 by Pete

It came out of nowhere. One moment Jesus is teaching the crowd, the next he’s talking to the fisherman. With one breath Jesus is revealing the coming of the kingdom of God, with the next he says, “Go fishing.” And … Continue reading →

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Heartburn

Posted on September 17, 2014 by Pete

It was an encounter of the divine kind. They weren’t looking for it . . . they weren’t expecting it . . . for most of it, they weren’t even aware of it. They may have been part of the … Continue reading →

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The Lord Jesus

Posted on September 16, 2014 by Pete

This morning, reading in Luke, I came across a three word combination that jumped off the page. Each word in and of itself has appeared numerous times in Luke. That the words would be associated with each other is not … Continue reading →

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They Had No Idea

Posted on September 15, 2014 by Pete

Two passages of Scripture intersected for me this morning in a way I had not anticipated nor expected. One was in the Old Testament . . . the other, in the New. The first passage is twelve verses long and … Continue reading →

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