Tag: Luke

I can just imagine what it would have been like to have the risen Lord expound all the scriptures as they walked. They would have remembered that experience the rest of their lives.

When Jesus was brought before Herod, Herod was hoping for some kind of entertainment or spectacle. I’ll bet that was why Jesus was silent before him. I also begin to wonder if Herod’s desire for spectacle was a motivation behind the mockery that the soldiers inflicted on Jesus.

I still remember when I first heard this counsel the title of a Melchizedek Priesthood lesson manual. When put together in context that Christ said this to Peter right after telling Peter that he had prayed to guard Peter against the efforts of Satan I conclude that he was counseling Peter to use the power…

Jesus warns that we should not go after those that come claiming to be Him. How will we know if we can’t follow those who claim to be Christ? When He does come He will not need to announce Himself. Either we will simply be certain at His appearance or potentially Heavenly Father could announce…

It has always been clear that scribes and Pharisees often asked questions of Jesus to try tripping him up but like makes it clear that in the latest part of His ministry they also enlisted the help of others who pretended to be regular people to ask those types of questions. Maybe they expected that…

Jesus taught “certain that trusted in themselves that they were righteous” and my immediate thought was, “ah, Pharisees.” That may or may not have been true but as I thought about it I realized that trusting that you are righteous—if that means having some assurance that your life is differently in harmony with God’s will—is…

One of the keys to discipleship is that we should always recognize that no matter how much we give back to the Lord it will never put Him in our debt. We give because we love, not because we can clear our balance.

I think when Christ gave the missionaries power to tread on serpents and scorpions it has even more to do with the serpents and scorpions among men than it did with the dangerous reptiles and arachnids under foot.

I never noticed before that the scriptures clearly state that there were several women who were consistently with Jesus and the apostles. None of their names are surprises. Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Susannah are the ones named.