Living Room Study

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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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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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 announced [...]

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Luke 18

“He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and looked down on everyone else, ‘Two men went up to the Temple complex to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.  The Pharisee took his stand and was praying like this: ‘God, I thank you [...]

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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( in [...]

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Luke 16

“The master praised the unrighteous manager because he had acted so shrewdly.  For the sons of this age are more shrewd than the sons of light in dealing with their own people.  I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of worldly wealth, so that when it fails, they may welcome you into [...]

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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 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 12

“When He left there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to oppose Him fiercely and to cross-examine Him about many things: they were lying in wait for Him to trap Him in something He said. In these circumstances, a crowd of many thousands came together, so that they were trampling on one another.  He [...]

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Luke 11

“Jesus was praying in a certain place and when He was finished, one of his disciples said to Him ‘Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.’ He said to them, ‘Whenever you pray, say: Father, Your name be honored as holy. You Kingdom come. Give us each day our [...]

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