We don’t like to forgive because we think it’s weak; Jesus says that it is divine.  We don’t like to forgive because

The things that Jesus proclaimed in the “Sermon on the Plain” sound like impossible ideals given by some out-of-touch mystic, but they

It is one thing to believe something, it is another thing to quote scripture about what you believe, but when push comes

If we are going to be followers of Jesus, not just supporters; if we are going to be apprentices, and step into

In this scene we have a perfect representation of the whole ministry of Jesus—the prophecy of who he is, Jesus’ statement of

The testing of Jesus came right on the heels of the baptism, that amazing declaration of God that this was his son. 

Far too often we want God to behave like a good deity should—to be there when we want him, to amaze us

Jesus has come to fulfill and complete what God started with Israel, to bring salvation to the world. His baptism is the beginning

The purpose of Luke’s gospel, as he put it, is to lay out an orderly account so that we might know with