With all the attention on the birth of Jesus, I thought it might be interesting to cast our thoughts a different direction: what happened after the manger but before His public ministry? What did Jesus do as a child? The Bible is fairly silent about His early childhood. We are told that He “grew and …
Category Archive: Luke
Sep 19
What Can We Learn From Peter’s Story (Luke 5.1-11)
Peter stands as one of those “giants in the faith,” alongside Moses, Abraham, David, and Paul. But it is so easy to forget that Peter was an ordinary man who encountered an in-ordinary Christ who changed his life from the mundane to the extraordinary. The gospel writer, Luke, describes how Peter’s life was transformed by Jesus. 1On …
May 08
Building Different Barns, Not Bigger Ones: A Meditation on Luke 12.32-34
For all of the nice and easy things that Jesus said, there were more than a few occasions when He nailed His disciples to the wall, and that nail reaches into my soul hundreds of years later. Consider the following. One day Jesus was approached by a man who wanted Jesus to tell his brother …