Category: Lent 2020
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Lent 2020 – Day 9
John 5:19 “I tell you the truth, the son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees the Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.” If yesterday we were considering aspects of the “big picture” of Jesus’s mission and purpose, today we consider more the issues of…
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Lent 2020 – Day 8
John 4:34 “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.” We are still exploring this question of how Jesus grew from a helpless baby to a confident adult, aware of his unique identity as both man and God and filled with such certainty and…
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Lent 2020 – Day 7
John 8: 58 -59a “I tell you the truth,” Jesus answered, “before Abraham was born, I am!” At this they picked up stones to stone him … [Away from Luke for a few days, but we’ll be back!] Alongside being fully man, Jesus was fully God, and he knew it. How he came to know…
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Lent 2020 – Day 6
Luke 2:51 And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and men. I can imagine the sort of evidence that would have allowed Luke to describe Jesus as growing “in favour with men”, but I wonder what was the evidence that led him to say, “in favour with God”. Ah well,…
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Lent 2020 – Day 5
Luke 2:50 Then he went down to Nazareth and was obedient to them [Mary and Joseph]. But his mother treasured all these things in her heart. This is the second time that Luke refers to Mary treasuring events in her heart. Perhaps it points to her being the direct source of much of the material…
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Lent 2020 – Day 4
Luke 2:49-50 “Why were you searching for me? [Jesus] asked. “Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s house?” But [Joseph and Mary] did not understand what he was saying to them. Luke records just one episode while Jesus is growing up. He is twelve. After making their annual Passover visit to Jerusalem…
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Lent 2020 – Day 3
Luke 2: 40 And the child grew and became strong; he was filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him. Only Luke records anything of Jesus’s childhood, and even he only gives us a handful of verses. This one covers Jesus’s first 12 years. What can we make of it? By way…
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Lent 2020 – Day 2
Luke 2:38 Coming up to them at that very moment, she [Anna] gave thanks to God and spoke about the child [Jesus] to all who were looking forward to the redemption of Jerusalem. Two people come up to Mary, Joseph and Jesus while they are in the temple fulfilling this Levitical requirement of Purification, one…
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Lent 2020 – Day 1
Luke 2:21 On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise him, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before he was conceived. This Lent series picks up Luke’s gospel narrative after the birth of Jesus – the incarnation – an event that was miraculous, unique, foretold by prophets, heralded…
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