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Unseen Servants Unseen Servants and the risk of bitterness As writers, we can often feel unseen. If we're not careful, we can become discontent and desire the praise and recognition from men & women. Are we able to be faithful and seek our approval and recognition from God alone? Let's take a look at some examples in scripture. Gehazi, servant to Elisha (2 Kings 5:20-27) Martha (Luke 10:38-42) Older son (Luke 15:25-32) Women supporting Jesus (Luke 8:1-3) Our friend Craig Sampson, when I worked in YFC. This man was one of the best volunteers you could ever ask for. Always faithful with no desire for personal gain and recognition. Matthew 6:4-6 - "Your Father who sees in secret…" Revelation 2:2-4 - "I know the things you do…" May we learn to be content as unseen servants for the Lord, regardless of any praise or recognition we receive from people. Resources: If you're ready to take a step of faith and finally finish your book, we have a few ways we can help you. 1. Free Writing Week Challenge: Create a Writing Habit in 15-Minutes a Day Even if you feel overwhelmed or stuck in procrastination, sitting down to write for just 15 minutes a day is the best way to finally reach your writing goals. Most writers think they need hours of uninterrupted time to make progress in their writing. However, in this free challenge, we will show you how much you can accomplish in just 15 minutes of focused writing. Click here to create a consistent writing habit this week. 2. Book Writing Lab Workshop - Map Out Your Book in Just 90 Minutes If over the last year, you've struggled to get your book written, this workshop is for you. Choose your book topic, write an outline, and create a writing plan in just 90-minutes! Finally, feel confident that you will actually finish your book. Get started now for just $27 3. Want More Support? Join Christian Book Academy Most writers stay stuck and never finish their first draft. Inside Christian Book Academy, we help you partner with God to write your book so you can become a published author. Finally, ditch your self-doubt and take a step of faith so you can finish your book. Join Christian Book Academy (coupon code PODCAST) Get 50% off your first month by using the coupon code PODCAST at checkout.
And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb. – Luke 2:21
Sermon by Pastor Hans Kristensen at Marsfield Community Church, Sydney on Sunday 30 Nov 2025. Series "The Cross Road - The Gospel of Luke"
2022-02-28 - Prepared for King Jesus: Luke 19_43-20_19 [kBZoEowRhcE] by Salvador Flores III
2022-04-25 - A Walk with Jesus: Luke 24_13-35 [KEIab7WFbQs] by Salvador Flores III
2022-03-07 - Testing Jesus: Luke 20_20-47 [KFDqs4jwNKg] by Salvador Flores III
2022-01-24 - Believing, Seeing, & Being Close to Jesus: Luke 18_31-19_10 [BXnvoxNHuvQ] by Salvador Flores III
Why is it so easy to ask God for what we need, but it's sometimes hard to thank God for answered prayers? Today we are running back to Jesus to thank Him for His good gifts. Grab your Gratitude Journals and lets learn from the past and look to God in gratitude.Recorded live at Word of Life Church in Le Sueur, Minnesota, on Sunday, November 23, 2025, Pastor Jason Lang preaching.
This week at our Jackson Campus, Campus Pastor Mitch Johnson concludes our verse-by-verse, expository journey through the Gospel of Luke—now under our new series title, Who Is This Jesus? We hope this resource is a blessing to you. For more information about The Point Church, please visit us online at www.tothepoint.church.Takeaway: "Do You Follow Jesus?”
This week at our Perdido Key Campus, Senior Pastor Kyle Valaer concludes our verse-by-verse, expository journey through the Gospel of Luke—now under our new series title, Who Is This Jesus? . We hope this resource is a blessing to you. For more information about The Point Church, please visit us online at www.tothepoint.church.Takeaways:Following Jesus is costly.Following Jesus is the priority.Following Jesus demands all of you.Will you follow Jesus or not?
Guest Preacher Patrick Boatwright preaches from Luke 23 on Christ the King Sunday.
Teach Us, Jesus (Luke 6) - 11.23.2025 | Jeremiah Fair
Devotion : The Cost of Following Jesus / Luke 9:57-62 by Community Lutheran Church
This week at our Perdido Key Campus, Senior Pastor Kyle Valaer is continuing our verse-by-verse, expository journey through the Gospel of Luke—now under our new series title, Who Is This Jesus? . We hope this resource is a blessing to you. For more information about The Point Church, please visit us online at www.tothepoint.church.Takeaways:Our unity is based on likeness to Jesus not likeness to us.Our Savior's commitment to us should fuel our commitment to Him.Our mission is salvation from sin not condemnation of sinners.
This week at our Perdido Key Campus, Senior Pastor Kyle Valaer is continuing our verse-by-verse, expository journey through the Gospel of Luke—now under our new series title, Who Is This Jesus? . We hope this resource is a blessing to you. For more information about The Point Church, please visit us online at www.tothepoint.church.TakeawaysOur most serious enemy is the self-centered, ambitious pride of our own heart.Pride blinds us to our true condition.Pride is consumed with self-promotion.Pride destroys all forms of unity.Pride hinders our spiritual growth and cripples our ministry effectiveness.The way of Jesus is selfless, sacrificial love.True greatness never pursues greatness.
This week at our Jackson Campus, IMB Missionary Seth Whipple is continuing our verse-by-verse, expository journey through the Gospel of Luke—now under our new series title, Who Is This Jesus? . We hope this resource is a blessing to you. For more information about The Point Church, please visit us online at www.tothepoint.church.
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Teach Us, Jesus (Luke 6) - 11.9.2025 | Jeremiah Fair
Flashback Episode: Year in Luke – Episode 46: On the night Jesus was arrested, He leaves the disciples with a challenge before He goes off to pray. Discover how this challenge is powerful and how we can claim it in our lives today! Join the discussion on the original episode's page: Click Here.Listen to this episode and/or subscribe on ReflectiveBibleStudy.com...
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego faced the furnace not because their faith failed, but because they trusted the God who saves. Their refusal to bow isn't stubbornness, it's confidence that the Lord is worthy of trust even when the flames rise and deliverance seems impossible. In the fire, the Lord makes himself known. This week we'll see how their story invites us to the same confession— the God who stood with them in the furnace is the God who stands with us in every trial.Pastor Schroeder's sermon preached at Faith on November 16, 2025. Intro/Outro Music: “Depth of Field” by David Hilowitz
Teach Us, Jesus (Luke 6) - 11.9.2025 | Jeremiah Fair
The Hartman's Coal and the Widow's Coins: Total Devotion to Jesus (Luke 21:1–4) - Gabriel Hinerman
Pastor Dave Daye - November 9, 2025Part of the Gospel of Luke sermon seriesOrchard Community Church www.orchardcommunitychurch.com Listening to sermons online can be a great way to keep up with a sermon series if you are unable to attend church but should never be a substitute for regular attendance of a gospel-centered and bible teaching church.
Reading Luke 22:54-62 where Peter denies three times that he knows Jesus, just as Jesus told him that he would, and then Peter goes out and weeps bitterly over his sin. Visit wwutt.com for all our videos!
Looking For Jesus | Luke 19:1-10 | 110225 by Corey
This week at our Perdido Key Campus, Senior Pastor Kyle Valaer is continuing our verse-by-verse, expository journey through the Gospel of Luke—now under our new series title, Who Is This Jesus? . We hope this resource is a blessing to you. For more information about The Point Church, please visit us online at www.tothepoint.church.Takeaways:Christians shouldn't fear the powers of spiritual darkness, but we shouldn't trivialize them either.There's no room in the Christian life for self-reliance and self-confidence.We must live and serve with our eyes pointed away from self.Prayerlessness is a matter of unbelief.The fundamental message of the church is Jesus Christ and Him crucified.The Person and work of Jesus Christ on the cross is the clearest revelation of God's glory.
Meeting the Real Jesus: Luke 24:13-35 (Nate Edmondson) by Highlands Community Church
Teach Us, Jesus (Luke 6) - 11.2.2025 | Rachel Speedie
Devotion : Creation Obeys Jesus / Luke 8:22-25 by Community Lutheran Church
This week at our Perdido Key Campus, Senior Pastor Kyle Valaer is continuing our verse-by-verse, expository journey through the Gospel of Luke—now under our new series title, Who Is This Jesus? . We hope this resource is a blessing to you. For more information about The Point Church, please visit us online at www.tothepoint.church.TakeawaysThe glory of God is the foundation, background, and culmination of everything in life.God has created everything for His own glory.God's glory is the explanation for everything we go through in life.In the end, all things in heaven and on earth will serve to manifest the glory of God.Our greatest need is to grow in our awe and appreciation of the glory of God in Christ Jesus.The Lord shows His glory through suffering.As we share in His sufferings, we will share in His glory.
Teach Us, Jesus (Luke 6) - 10.26.2025 | Jeremiah Fair
In Luke 24, we're reminded that it's possible to be around Jesus without truly seeing him. But when the Spirit opens our eyes through the Word, we see him clearly, and seeing Jesus always leads to worship.
In Luke 24, we're reminded that it's possible to be around Jesus without truly seeing him. But when the Spirit opens our eyes through the Word, we see him clearly, and seeing Jesus always leads to worship.
What roles do God and Satan play in Job's suffering and suffering throughout Scriptures?Satan appears in Job 1:6-12 and 2:1-6, 7. His hand in suffering is particularly emphasized in Job 1:12 and 2:6, 7. Satan's hand in suffering is stressed in several New Testament passages as well. In Luke 13:16 the woman Jesus heals in the synagogues is one “whom Satan has bound for eighteen years.” In Acts 10:38 Jesus went about doing good and “healing all who were oppressed of the devil.” II Cor. 12:7 describes Paul's thorn in the flesh as a “messenger of Satan.” In Jesus' letter to the church of Smyrna he says that “the devil is about to cast some of you into prison” (Rev. 2:10). Each of these passages speak of Satan, the devil playing a significant role in human suffering. There are certainly other passages that tie Satan to temptation, sin, and spiritual suffering, but now we are focusing on physical suffering. These truths from the book of Job about God's hand in human suffering are consistent with the rest of Scripture. Deuteronomy 32:39 “See now that I, I am He, and there is no god besides Me; It is who put to death and give life. I have wounded and it is I who heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.”I Samuel 2:6-7 “The LORD kills and makes alive; He brings down to Sheol and raises up. The LORD makes poor and rich; He brings low, He also exalts.”Isaiah 30:26 “The LORD binds up the fracture of His people and heals the bruise He has inflicted.”Isaiah 45:7 “The One forming light and creating darkness, causing well-being and creating calamity; I am the LORD who does all these.”Jer. 32:42 “Just as I brought all this great disaster on this people, so I am going to bring on them all the good that I am promising them.”Lam. 3:37-38 “Who is there who speaks and it comes to pass, unless the LORD has commanded it? Is in not from the mouth of the Most High that both good and ill go forth?”Amos 3:6 “If a trumpet is blown in a city will not the people tremble? If a calamity occurs in a city has not the LORD done it?”Heb. 12:1-11 The hostility followers of Jesus experienced from sinners in 12:1-4 seems to be the same as the discipline of the LORD in 12:5-11. There are several events in which both God and Satan are said to be active. Jesus was led into the wilderness by the Spirit to be tempted by the devil (Matt. 4:1; Luke 4:1). The devil is trying to get Jesus to sin and undo God's entire plan of salvation. God using to the same event to qualify Jesus as the perfect high priest (Heb. 2:17-18; 4:14-16). While Paul's thorn in the flesh was a messenger of Satan, it was given to keep Paul from exalting himself (II Cor. 12:7-10). Obviously, keeping Paul from becoming proud was not Satan's purpose but it was God's purpose. While Satan entered Judas to entice him to betray Jesus (Luke 22:3; John 13:2, 27), all the things that happened around the crucifixion were to fulfill the will of God (Acts 2:23; 3:13-15; 4:27-28; 13:27). While Satan and God were both involved in these events, in none of these cases are God and Satan acting together. Satan is seeking to cause man to curse God. But God is working in the same events to seek to teach man things he would not have learned otherwise (Ps. 119:67, 71, 75). God is seeking to help man see Him more clearly than previously (Job 42:5-6). God is working to save man from sin. The message of the Bible is that nothing happens to us that is not ultimately controlled by the knowledge, love, wisdom, and power of our God of all comfort (II Cor. 1:3). The test of Job was ultimately a step in the utter defeat of Satan and not Job.
Father Shawn McCain Tirres | October 12, 2025 Father Shawn explores the story of ten lepers healed by Jesus (Luke 17) and what it means to live in "in-between places"—those tensions between health and unhealth, certainty and doubt, belonging and exclusion. He challenges us to see how Jesus consistently draws near to the doubly excluded and calls us to join him in that same work of radical welcome.
Transcript:Hello, this is Pastor Don of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. Hospitality is a discipline of heart, mind, and action. It requires you to have a new mindset—to work at getting outside yourself (your perspective, preferences, hurts, grievances, etc.) into the world of “the other”. It requires being considerate and kind, looking at and appreciating life from another's perspective (Philippians 2:1-5). For the Christian, this happens first and foremost with one another in the church, and secondly, with those outside (Galatians 6:9-10). It is seeking to accommodate and value one another's differences, while welcoming all to the same table of faith and repentance through the grace of Christ. It is giving of your time, treasure, talents, and reputation to help others feel the welcome embrace of God in Christ. Hospitality often involves mixing your nonbelieving friends and neighbors with the people of the church, so that all might have an encounter with Jesus (Luke 5:27-32). It is seeing yourself as an ambassador in your workplace, school, and neighborhood; it is seeing your home as an embassy of gospel shalom. It is seeing our church as an embassy to our community. It is seeing your engagement at church as a diplomatic mission to all present. As a church, we should expect to be “on display” in our community and thus be mindful of representing the gospel well in our engagement with others (Matthew 5:16; Colossians 4:5-6; Romans 12:9-21). As a church, we are an outpost of the coming kingdom—a city within a city (the polis of God amongst the polis of man). Thus, it is imperative we nurture a community of Christ's love, of His grace and truth (i.e., love), as this is critical to the effectiveness of our mission of hospitality. Something to think about from The Kingdom Perspective. “So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.”~ Philippians 2:1-7 (ESV)
This week at our Perdido Key Campus, our Executive Pastor + Worship Leader Joe McClellan is continuing our verse-by-verse, expository journey through the Gospel of Luke—now under our new series title, Who Is This Jesus? . We hope this resource is a blessing to you. For more information about The Point Church, please visit us online at www.tothepoint.church.
Time with Jesus must come before service for Jesus. When we sit with Jesus, our service becomes joyful, Spirit-led, and rooted in love—not frustration or self-reliance.
Time with Jesus must come before service for Jesus. When we sit with Jesus, our service becomes joyful, Spirit-led, and rooted in love—not frustration or self-reliance.
In this episode of Pray the Word on Luke 2:26, David Platt teaches us to live with eager anticipation of Jesus face to face.Listen to our newest podcast, Everyday Radical!Explore more content from Radical.