Author: Nick
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Lent 2020 – Day 27
Luke 5:8 When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees and said, “Go away from me Lord; I am a sinful man!” For he and all his companions were astonished at the catch of fish they had taken, and so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, Simon’s partners. This chapter in…
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Lent 2020 – Day 26
Luke 4:42-43 At daybreak Jesus went out to a solitary place. The people were looking for him and when they came to where he was, they tried to keep him from leaving them. But he said, “I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God in the other towns also, because that is…
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Lent 2020 – Day 25
Luke 4:36 All the people were amazed and said to each other, “What is this teaching? With authority and power he gives orders to evil spirits and they come out!” After his rejection in Nazareth, Jesus returns to Capernaum and the contrast could not be greater. From an audience that could not see beyond the…
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Lent 2020 – Day 24
Luke 4:23 Jesus said to them, “Surely you will quote this proverb to me, ‘Physician heal yourself! Do here in your home town what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.’ “ Not for the only time in the gospels, we find Jesus responding to unvoiced questions and getting right to the heart of…
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Lent 2020 – Day 23
Luke 4:22 All spoke well of him [Jesus] and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his lips. “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?” they asked. Again, it is all going so well. Jesus has returned from his desert isolation ‘in the power of the Spirit’, news has spread, he is teaching in synagogues, everyone…
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Lent 2020 – Day 22
Luke 4:1-2 Jesus, full of the Holy spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the desert, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of the time he was hungry. I’ve made no topical references of late, partly…
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Lent 2020 – Day 21
Luke 3:23-38 Now Jesus himself was about thirty years old when he began his ministry. He was the son, so it was thought, of Joseph, the son of … the son of Adam, the son of God. Matthew, writing especially to Jewish readers, opens his gospel with a very symbolic genealogy going back to Abraham. …
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Lent 2020 – Day 20
Luke 3:21b-22 Jesus was baptised too. And as he was praying, heaven was opened, and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my son, whom I love, with you I am well pleased.” What a moment! Jesus emerges from his baptism, he…
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Lent 2020 – Day 19
Luke 3:7-8 John said to the crowds coming out to be baptised by him, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones god…
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Lent 2020 – Day 18
Luke 3:3 He [John] went into all the country around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. Imagine for a moment that you had not read that verse. Imagine simply that it was your mission, as Isaiah puts it, to “prepare the way of the Lord, to make straight paths…
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