August 15, 2014
by julie
Comments Off on Lord, You can make me clean.
Luke 5:12-26 has two accounts of Jesus healing people, and it makes very clear that there were two kinds of healing Jesus was doing: physical and spiritual. The plea of the leper struck me especially tonight: he falls facedown and … Continue reading
August 6, 2014
by julie
Comments Off on Go away, I’m a sinner!
Luke 5:1-11 is a tremendously powerful little story. Jesus sees two boats, and the fishermen washing their nets—after a long night of catching nothing. The fishermen are Peter, James, and John, partners in a fishing enterprise (v. 10). Jesus gets … Continue reading
August 4, 2014
by julie
Comments Off on Nazareth Vs. Capernaum
Next up, Luke 4:31-44. Here, Jesus goes back to Capernaum, the place where he had been doing miracles that the people in Nazareth wanted done in Nazareth, and… He does more miracles. The parallels here seem pretty obvious. Jesus goes … Continue reading
August 3, 2014
by julie
Comments Off on Miracles: Not for everyone.
So, my next goal for reading is to read through Jesus’s “sermons” as set out in the book of Luke. It struck me on my last read-through (which was rapid) that there was an enormous amount of meat in only … Continue reading