Category: Luke

Nothing can ever happen to us that Christ has not known long ago.

September 4, 2010

J.C.Ryle, comments on Luke 21:20-24 We should mark in this passage, our Lord Jesus Christ’s perfect knowledge. He gives us a fearful picture of the miseries which were coming on Jerusalem. Forty years before the armies of Titus encompassed the city, the dreadful circumstances which would attend the siege are minutely described. The distress of … More Nothing can ever happen to us that Christ has not known long ago.

Risk and the Cause of God

September 3, 2010

 In America, generally,Christians have not had to face the kind of risk and persecution that is common in other parts of the world.  Here is a recent report from northern Nigeria, from the Persecution Blog (VOM)   “The militants attempted to force the pastors to convert to Islam, but they refused to abandon their faith. … More Risk and the Cause of God

Games People Play

September 1, 2010

Luke 20:27, “they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died without children. And the second … More Games People Play

September 1 Luke 20:27-40

September 1, 2010

September 1  Luke 20:27-40 (ESV) Sadducees Ask About the Resurrection 27 There came to him some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, 28 and they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man [1] must take the widow and … More September 1 Luke 20:27-40

“Hooray for daddy!”

August 22, 2010

John Piper, in a sermon, “O,That You Knew the Terms of Peace!” (Luke 19:41-44) I want you to imagine a scene with me. There is a young doctor who has a wife and three small children. He volunteers to take a dangerous six-month mission assignment to a place where there is an epidemic of a … More “Hooray for daddy!”

Perfect Knowledge

August 21, 2010

J.C.Ryle comments on the Triumphal Entry in Luke 19:28-38  Let us mark, for one thing, in these verses, the perfect knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. We see Him sending two of His disciples to a village, and telling them that they would find at the entrance of it, “a colt tied, whereon yet never … More Perfect Knowledge