Posts Tagged ‘Gospel of Luke’
We Cannot Control God
I hear it all the time. “I can’t believe in a God who…” or “I would believe in a God who…” and we insert our opinion of Who God ‘should’ be. The only problem is (as if there is only one) we don’t control God. God is Who He is, and we either accept Him…
Read MoreEpisode 379 – How We Respond to God, Matters
As Christians we are faced everyday with responding to God. We see God healing others. We watch God bless others. Too often we respond with jealousy rather than joy. Every day we are forced to choose God or to choose ourselves. In the story of the healing of the man with legion demons, the crowd…
Read MoreChristian Stewardship
Every year in the fall months, churches offer presentations about stewardship. We hear about tithing. We hear about sacrificial giving. We even hear about budget sharing. All these share a common element. All focus on ‘how’ we give our stewardship. They miss the foundation of Christian Stewardship. At that time Jesus went on through cities…
Read MoreEpisode 378 – The Physical Touch of God
As God revealed in the miracle at Nain as described in Luke 7.11-16, God has chosen to come and visit His people with His own body. With His physical touch, Christ brought the son of the widow back to life. We are the temple of the Living God because God has visited His people. Through…
Read MoreOur Own Church
One of the struggles we experience within ‘American Individualism’ is a sense that nobody has the right to tell us what to believe or how to live. In fact, this has led to more than 45,000 denominations of Christianity in the world. As the name suggests, Protestantism features an individual or group that protests the…
Read MoreHow Will You Help the Lord This Week?
In the Gospel of Luke we hear the calling of the first disciples of Christ while they were “off duty” from their day of fishing. Jesus “saw two boats standing by the lake, but the fishermen had gone from them and were washing their nets.” (Luke 5.2) Their day was finished and I’m sure the…
Read MoreEpisode 377 – When we Allow God to Use Us
When we stop asking, “What’s in it for us,” and allow God to use us for His Church and His Gospel, we experience miracles. We have been given gifts and talents from God not for our use, but for God to use to preach to others. We receive the grace of God when we are…
Read MorePrayer is Timeless
We are encouraged by the Church and the saints to be always in a state of prayer. As part of our Holy Tradition, we gather as an Orthodox Christian family to pray in Church. We pray in the privacy of our homes. We even pray, or at least we are encouraged to pray, as we…
Read MoreAre You a Sinner?
Let’s be honest for a moment. Nobody likes to admit they are a sinner, at least in public. Many of us hide our sins in private. When are sins are made public, we do everything we can to pretend they are not sins in the first place. We falsely believe that if we are not…
Read MoreCast Your Eyes On God
They say, ‘seeing is believing.’ When it comes to Our Lord, it has been more than two thousand years since our eyes have gazed upon His holy face. That puts us in the same position as many in the ancient world that desired to see God but could not. Yet, we still desire to see…
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