Living Room Study

Luke 15

“All the tax collectors and sinners were approaching to listen to Jesus.  And the Pharisees and scribes were complaining, ‘This man welcomes sinners and eats with them!’”  Luke 15:1-2

The idea that sinners can be restored to the Lord, as if their sin had never happened, is not an entirely New Testament concept. In 1178, [...]

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Luke 22

“’Lord,’ he told Him,  ’I’m ready to go with You both to prison and to death!’  ’I tell you, Peter,’ He said, ‘the rooster will not crow today until you deny three times that you know me.’”  Luke 22:33-34

In the Jewish calendar there are three major festivals, collectively known as the Shalosh Regalim.  Shalosh [...]

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Matthew 10

“Look, I am sending you out like sheep unto the wolves, therefore, be as shrewd as serpents and harmless as doves.  Because people will hand you over to sanhedrins and flog you in their synagogues, beware of them.  You will even be brought before governors and kings because of Me, to bear witness to [...]

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Matthew 9

“While He was reclining at the table in the house, many tax collectors and sinners came as guests to eat with Jesus and His disciples.  When the Pharisees saw this, they asked His disciples, “Why does you teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”  But when He heard this, He said, “Those who [...]

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Luke 14

“Now the great crowds were traveling with Him.  So He turned and said to them: ‘If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters – yes, and even his own life – he cannot be My disciple.  Whoever does not bear his own [...]

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Luke 19

“Then Jesus entered the Temple complex and He began to throw out those who were selling, and He said, ‘It is written, My house will be a house of prayer, but you have made it into a den of thieves!’”  Luke 19: 45-46

The day Jesus cleared the Temple was a day that had been [...]

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Luke 21

“He looked up and saw the rich dropping their offerings into the temple treasury.  He also saw a poor widow dropping in two tiny coins.  “I tell you the truth,” He said.  “This poor widow has put in more than all of them.  For all these people have put in gifts out of [...]

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Matthew 7

“Enter through the narrow gate.  For the gate is wide and the road is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who go through it.  How narrow is the gate and difficult the road that leads to life, and few find it.”  Matthew 7:13-14

A friend of mine is very wealthy. When I [...]

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Luke 17

“The apostles said to the Lord, ‘Increase our faith.’  ‘If you have faith the size of a mustard seed,’ the Lord said, ‘you can say to this fig tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea.’ and it will obey you.’”  Luke 17: 5-6

Depending on your bible translation, the tree thrown into the sea( [...]

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Luke 19

“Then Jesus entered the Temple complex and He began to throw out those who were selling, and He said, ‘It is written, My house will be a house of prayer, but you have made it into a den of thieves!’”  Luke 19: 45-46

The day Jesus cleared the Temple was a day that had been [...]

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