The Prodigal Repented We’re studying Lk 15:11-32, typically known as the passage about the prodigal son.  A prodigal is one who spends or gives lavishly and foolishly.  He’s not frugal or economical. This story illustrates the first ten verses of Lk 15.  The son repenting matches the one sinner that...

The Lost Sheep and Silver Piece Our text is Lk 15:1-10.  Publicans and sinners drew near to Jesus to hear him.  They wanted to hear what he had to say.  The Pharisees didn’t want to hear him and were perturbed that Jesus would even associate with publicans and sinners.  In...

Studies in Ruth A Marriage Proposal (Ruth 3:1-18) Ruth chapter 3 gives us some interesting verses. In this lesson we will look at a couple of these verses and give some scriptural significance for them as well as show the typology of Ruth going to Boaz as a type of...

The Cost of Discipleship The Cost of discipleship is threefold.  Jesus said that you must: Hate your own family. 26.  What in the world is Jesus talking about here?  Hate in the Bible is always what you understand it to be by definition. This doesn’t seem to make sense.  Consider...

A Great Supper The context of Lk 14:15-24, the great supper, is Jesus in the house of one of the chief Pharisees eating bread on the sabbath, Lk 14:1.  While there: Jesus healed a man of the dropsy.  Taught them that healing on the sabbath is no less lawful than...

Lessons to Lawyers and Pharisees He taught them lessons: Concerning Jesus and Jerusalem Lk 13:31 The Pharisees said to Jesus, “Get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill thee”.  This was an idle threat because Herod wan’t going to kill Jesus, and when he had the opportunity he...

Studies in Ruth Naomi’s Testimony (Ruth 1:11) In this series we are going to study through the book of Ruth. This will not be an exhaustive or verse by verse study but instead we will be looking at different themes from each of the chapters as well as the story...

Mustard Seed, Leaven, and the Strait Gate In Lk 13:18-30 Jesus gave two parables concerning the kingdom of God and then gave his Jewish audience an exhortation to enter the kingdom of God through the strait gate. The kingdom of God is like two things, a grain of mustard seed...

In A Synagogue On The Sabbath In Lk 13:10 we see that Jesus was teaching in a synagogue on the sabbath.  While he was there, he taught on the need for repentance, he spoke a parable about a fig tree, and he healed a woman which had a spirit of...

Our Faith affects others (1 Thessalonians 3:1-10)  The Thessalonians were ensamples unto all those in Macedonia and Achaia. This can be seen by looking at the examples Paul gave them in Chapter 2 and how they followed. The key to this was said to be how they received the word...