Category: Luke the Gospel in Action

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Luke the Gospel in Action: Particular People – Singular God

Posted on by Rev Bill Crawford

Looking at Luke chapter 3 vs. 10-18 I discovered that God is singular and although there is likewise a singular Gospel it has particular applications for particular people.

You can hear the Holy Spirit work as I slowly change the name of the sermon while I preach! A sermon is not complete until it is preached and there was living proof this week. (I have preached from a manuscript for 12 years – none (of the manuscripts) have survived the experience.
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Luke the Gospel in Action Part 5: Birth

Posted on by Rev Bill Crawford

Continuing the series in Luke at Chapter 2. An intriguing passage if you read through the mundane. A hectic week with illnesses from various could and flu may have obscured the sermon some so a summary:

God’s sovereign will is so incredibly powerful that:
Despite Joseph being the descendant of a fallen royal line
Despite Mary being an unwed mother (more about this below)
Despite the two of them being moved around at the will of a Pagan Ruler
God’s will is worked out exactly as prophesied hundreds of years in advance.

Amazing stuff.

Note: Mary is named Betrothed in Luke chapter 2. And although in Jewish culture a Betrothal will absolutely lead to a marriage they are not simultaneous events. So Although Matthew states that Joseph took Mary to be his wife it does not spell out the timeline nor the process. There is some dispute about this my conclusions are my own.