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Live@5 - Thursday, March 17, 2022 Luke 16:14–18 (NKJV) Jesus addresses the Pharisees regarding their love of money, among other things, in this additional follow-up to the parable of the unjust steward earlier in the chapter. 14 Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they derided Him. 15 … Continue reading The Law Presides

Luke 16:1–13 (NKJV) In this passage, Jesus uses a parable of an unjust steward who is about to lose his job. In the exit process, he negotiates with his master's debtors in order to win favor and perhaps find favor or even another job for after he is no longer employed by his master. 16:1 … Continue reading How to do Business Rightly

Luke 15:11–32 (NKJV) This passage contains the story of the Prodigal Son, which could just as easily be called the Parable of the Lost Son, a complement to the preceding passages in Luke 15 concerning the lost sheep and the lost coin. Here, the lost thing cannot be found by searching, but rather must be … Continue reading Prodigal Living

Luke 15:1–10 (NKJV) In these two brief passages, Jesus uses two parables to teach the joy and blessing of finding things that were lost. He alludes to a sheep and a coin as items that a man and a woman lost, and the joy that came when they were located. 15:1 Then all the tax … Continue reading Finding What Was Lost

LIVE@5 - Friday, March 11, 2022 Luke 14:15–35 (NKJV) Jesus here follows up His teaching on humility and hospitality from the previous passage with a parable of a gracious host who invited "unusual" guests to His banquet. 15 Now when one of those who sat at the table with Him heard these things, he said … Continue reading True Discipleship

LIVE@5 - Thursday, March 10, 2022 Luke 14:7–14 (NKJV) Jesus is a guest at a banquet, and offers advice to the guests and the host that could help them with the social graces, but also with their spiritual lives as well. He teaches them how to be humble in order to be exalted, and then … Continue reading Humility & Hospitality

LIVE@5 - Wednesday, March 9, 2022 Luke 14:1–6 (NKJV) Jesus uses a healing opportunity to teach a lesson on the value of humanity. 14 Now it happened, as He went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees to eat bread on the Sabbath, that they watched Him closely. 2 And behold, … Continue reading The Value of Humanity

LIVE@5 - Tuesday, March 8, 2022 Luke 13:31–35 (NKJV) In this brief interchange, Jesus establishes to the Pharisees that He does not fear man, nor does He intend to be stopped from the purpose for which He was born. He will not be intimidated by Herod, nor will He stay away from Jerusalem, for He … Continue reading Mourning for Jerusalem