Category: Lent
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Lent 2020 – Day 31
Luke 7:39 When the Pharisee [Simon] who had invited him [Jesus, to dinner] saw this [the woman anointing Jesus’s feet], he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is – that she is a sinner.” Jesus certainly engaged with the…
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Lent 2020 – Day 30
Luke 5:17, 21 One day as he [Jesus] was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law, who had come from every village of Galilee and from Judea and Jerusalem, were sitting there … [they] began thinking to themselves “Who is this fellow who speaks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?” We are going…
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Lent 2020 – Day 29
Luke 7:29-30 (All the people, even the tax collectors, when they heard Jesus’ words, acknowledged that God’s way was right because they had been baptised by John. But the Pharisees and experts of the law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptised by John.) Luke adds this verse in parentheses, but…
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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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