Most of Jesus’ parables in Luke were direct responses to a situation he was in or a comment or question directed at him, including the parables of lost things in Luke 15. What attitude was Jesus responding to, and how might we be in danger of the same attitude today?
(Preaching through the Gospel of Luke. This sermon was preached at the Dewey Church of Christ on October 11, 2026.)
We resume our study of Luke’s gospel this week. Luke 14 contains maybe the most famous parable about the “cost of discipleship,” but there are three different parables about feasts before it in Luke 14 that all make answer a similar question: what does it take to follow Jesus?
(Preaching through Luke. This sermon was preached at the Dewey Church of Christ on October 4, 2026.)
If spiritual thinking begins with considering eternal concerns (judgment, the character of God, “spiritual” treasure), what does it look like in practical, everyday terms? How should spiritual thinking manifest in this present, temporal life?
(Preaching through Luke. This sermon was preached at the Dewey Church of Christ on March 29, 2026.)
Luke 12-13 form a cohesive unit of Jesus’s teaching on having a spiritual mindset. This week, we will consider the motivation and basis of spiritual thinking, and then next week look at what Jesus has to say about how such thinking manifests (or should manifest) in our worldview, emotions, and actions.
(Preaching through Luke. This sermon was preached at the Dewey Church of Christ on March 22, 2026.)
The middle section of Luke transitions away from being mostly stories of Jesus to being mostly the words and teaching of Jesus. In chapter 11, there is a sequence of Jesus’s teaching culminating in a condemnation of the Pharisees for having the wrong priorities in their righteousness. What can we learn from these words of Jesus?
(Preaching through Luke. This sermon was preached at the Dewey Church of Christ on March 15, 2026.)
Twice in Luke 9-10 Jesus sends out his disciples on the so-called “limited commission” – a smaller version of what he would eventually command all Christians to do. What can we learn from these preparatory missions, and how do they foreshadow the mission of the church to come?
(Preaching through Luke. This sermon was preached at the Dewey Church of Christ on March 8, 2026).
Twice in Luke 9 the question of Jesus’ identity is asked. Who is this man? Is he Elijah, or one of the prophets of old come back to life? The answer culminates in one of the most interesting gospel stories: the transfiguration. What should we learn from this section of Luke’s gospel?
(Preaching through the Gospel of Luke. This sermon was preached at the Dewey Church of Christ on March 1, 2026.)
Jesus taught in many parables over the course of his earthly ministry; it is one of the most striking aspects of his teaching. What is a parables, how should we read them, and why are they such an powerful part of his message?
(Preaching through the Gospel of Luke. This sermon was preached at the Dewey Church of Christ on February 22, 2026.)
By the seventh chapter of Luke, Jesus had already done more than enough to prove himself worthy of believing in and following, so it is worth considering how people started responding to him. What influenced people to reject or accept him, and how does this compare to our situation today?
(Preaching through Luke. This sermon was preached at the Dewey Church of Christ on February 15, 2026.)
(Note: This audio sounds very different because it is livestreamed from home in a snow storm.)
The first few stories of Jesus’s ministry in Luke’s Gospel serve to introduce the purpose of his earthly ministry and reinforce some of the ways that Jesus might have been tempted to alter or change his purpose from the Father. What was his purpose, and how does it inform our own?
(Preaching through the Gospel of Luke. This sermon was preached at the Dewey Church of Christ on January 25, 2026.)
