Your year-end gift to Enduring Word helps millions of people all around the world.Click here to donate And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. (Luke 14:27) Previously in Luke 14, Jesus told a parable explaining that coming into God’s kingdom was like accepting an invitation (Luke 14:16-24). That…
Your year-end gift to Enduring Word helps millions of people all around the world.Click here to donate Then one from the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inUnless you repent you will all likewise perish…. but unless you repent you will all likewise perish. (Luke 13:3, 5) To some people, this…
Your year-end gift to Enduring Word helps millions of people all around the world.Click here to donate Then one from the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” But He said to him, “Man, who made Me a judge or an arbitrator over you?” And He said to…
It is good to give thanks to the LORD,And to sing praises to Your name, O Most High;To declare Your lovingkindness in the morning,And Your faithfulness every night (Psalm 92:1-2) Ungrateful people are unpleasant to be around. It’s not right that someone should receive so much yet reman ungrateful. The attitude of gratitude is something that there…
So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. (Luke 11:9-10) In this teaching on prayer, Jesus told His disciples…
Then He said to them, “The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few; therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest. Go your way; behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.” (Luke 10:2-3) Jesus was preparing His larger group of 70 followers to spread His message through the region of…
For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in His own glory, and in His Father’s, and of the holy angels. (Luke 9:26) Jesus gave a radical call to anyone who wanted to follow Him, to be His disciple. Jesus called people to find life in Him…
Now it came to pass, afterward, that He went through every city and village, preaching and bringing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with Him, and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities—Mary called Magdalene, out of whom had come seven demons, and Joanna the wife of…
This is he of whom it is written: “Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, Who will prepare Your way before You.” For I say to you, among those born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist; but he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he. (Luke…
When He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon, “Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” But Simon answered and said to Him, “Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing; nevertheless at Your word I will let down the net.” (Luke 5:4-5) Simon Peter and several of the…
So all those in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, and rose up and thrust Him out of the city; and they led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, that they might throw Him down over the cliff. Then passing through the midst…
When all the people were baptized, it came to pass that Jesus also was baptized; and while He prayed, the heaven was opened. And the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon Him, and a voice came from heaven which said, “You are My beloved Son; in You I am well…