Luke 13:1-9 (NIV). Karl Barth, the renowned Swiss Reformed Theologian, famously said “take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.” This is so, because faith isn’t something we live in isolation. It’s not separate from real life. The gospel speaks into our world – into war and injustice, into the everyday struggles of ordinary people. Out today’s text speaks into our life today and we find ourselves asking: What does this mean? Where is God in this? How should we respond. And that’s not a new question. It’s the same one people brought to Jesus in today’s gospel. Listen to Jesus’s response. If you are blessed from hearing this message, please feel free to donate today! Amen.

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Luke 5:1-11 (NRSV). The lesson from today’s text is a story of Jesus calling four fishermen to be fishers of people. The purpose of this miracle was not to meet a human-need. It was a teaching miracle. We will see five aspects of Christ’s divine nature and glory manifested: 1) disciples love to hear the word of God taught; 2) disciples obey Jesus even when it doesn’t make sense; 3) disciples are aware of their own sinfulness; 4) disciples are fishers of people; and 5) disciples are willing to forsake all and follow Christ. If you have been blessed from hearing this message, please feel free to sow a financial seed into this ministry. Thanks and amen.

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Luke 4:1-13 (NRSV). The biblical account of the temptation of Jesus as described in Luke’s Gospel should put us in the right mind to approach Lent as a time for reflection, penance and prayer in preparation for Easter. Jesus begins His ministry in the wilderness. Lent is a wilderness time for us. Jesus was “full of the Holy Spirit and we all should want to be “full of the Holy Spirit.” If you are full of the Spirit as a Christian, you will face your own wilderness at some point. But the Spirit doesn’t desert you in the desert, just like he did not desert Jesus in the wilderness. In the wilderness, Jesus, “full of the Holy Spirit,” turns to the word of God. Will you? If you have been blessed from hearing this message, please feel free to sow into our ministry. Amen.

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