by ray | Jan 17, 2012 | Sermons
1) Religion is about what you know. Love is about what you do. 2) Religion is reasonable and it doesn’t cost much. Love is full of interruptions and it’s costly. 3) Religion is about justifying oneself. Love is demonstrated by showing mercy to another. 29 But he...
by ray | Jan 17, 2012 | Sermons
So that completes our bird’s eye view of the life of Jesus. Now with that as the context, I think we are ready to tackle the parable of the Good Samaritan. Let’s read the text. Luke 10:25-37. Tying in the bird eye’s view of Jesus’ life, I want to end with 4 brief...
by ray | Jan 17, 2012 | Sermons
v45 is a weird verse. Luke 9 45 But they did not understand what this meant. It was hidden from them, so that they did not grasp it, and they were afraid to ask him about it. Of course, this was a prediction of the cross where Jesus would die for their sins. And we...
by ray | Jan 17, 2012 | Sermons
On New Year’s Day, not many of you were here, but we talked about the vision for LBC in 2012. What are we going to be about? What are we going to focus on? I mentioned last time that when choosing a vision statement or a mission statement or whatever you want to call...
