August 5, 2024
COUNTING THE COST
Add up all it could cost you to surrender your life to Christ and compare it to the tremendous price he paid on that tree and the riches of grace and eternal life he offers.
Articles for tag: Luke 14
June 10, 2024
June 16 Application | ‘When You Don’t Know What Is Ahead’
The future looked grim for Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, but they never flinched in their devotion to God. . . .
March 27, 2023
April 2 | Application (‘Mud on Your Coat’)
"In the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ triumphal entry," David Faust writes, "several details stir my curiosity. . . ."
November 28, 2022
Showing Up
Communion reminds us of a beautiful part of the Christmas story. . . .
July 25, 2022
July 31 | Application (‘Something Is Out of Whack in My Church’)
Let’s be honest. A lot of local churches don’t operate well. It’s beautiful when they do—when the body of Christ functions with harmony and efficiency. But it’s rare to find a congregation where everyone is “speaking the truth in love” and aligned around a common mission.
April 18, 2022
April 24 | Perfect Action
Many of the religious leaders of Jesus’ day failed to rejoice when the hurting were helped. The religion police were more interested in procedures than people.
July 23, 2018
Lesson for July 29, 2018: Parable of the Great Dinner (Luke 14:15-24)
Dr. Mark Scott wrote this treatment of the International Sunday School Lesson. Scott teaches preaching and New Testament at Ozark Christian College, Joplin, Missouri. This lesson treatment is published in issue no. 7 (weeks 25–28; July 22—August 12, 2018) of The Lookout magazine, and is also available online at www.lookoutmag.com. ______ By Mark Scott Eating is a form of thanksgiving and table fellowship is sacred. Jewish table grace went something like this: “Blessed art thou, O Lord our God, King of the universe, who brings forth bread from the earth.” When we eat we are acknowledging that God has provided for our needs. When
July 11, 2016
Bad News or Good News?
By T.R. Robertson The narrative of bad news dominates our culture, a culture that increasingly sees religion as a major purveyor of bad news. “We”re living in a day and age that the news media is a drug-pusher. And negative news is their drug,” says Dr. Peter H. Diamandis. “And on every device that we get””our cell phones, our smart phones, our laptops, our newspapers, our radios””we are fed negative news 24 hours a day, seven days a week, over and over and over again.” Diamandis, speaking in 2013 at a conference called “Global Future 2045: Towards a New Strategy for
January 13, 2014
Lesson for January 19, 2014: Enlarging Your Circle (Luke 14:7-24)
This treatment of the International Sunday School Lesson is written by Sam E. Stone, former editor of CHRISTIAN STANDARD. ______ By Sam E. Stone The scene described in today”s text takes place in the third year of Jesus” earthly ministry. Luke 14 begins with him having dinner in the home of a prominent Pharisee. Luke explains that “he was being carefully watched” by his critics. The critics didn”t care about the health of a very sick man who was brought to Jesus there; they were interested only in seeing whether or not Jesus would cure him, since it was a
May 24, 2009
Restoring, Rethinking, Remembering
By Dale Brown In an Indiana factory town in the 1950s, my family labored as a backbone piece of the Madison Avenue church of Christ. (They insisted on the small “c” for “church” as they were not a denomination””not by a long shot.) Evangelicals commonly talk about where and when they “met the Lord,” and I suppose a “meeting” of that sort happened to me in that Madison Avenue venue””not a commercial center by any stretch””but a fake tan brick building on the wrong side of the tracks where most of the important stuff of my young life came together.
April 16, 2006
Bargain Basement Salvation
Salvation is free to us because Jesus paid the price, but discipleship has no discounts. Ralph Shead challenges readers to stop shopping for bargains and to follow Jesus with full commitment.
