Luke 6:17-23 Click on this link to read the passage. You may select your own version of the Bible after the link opens. When most people think of blessings, they think of the last time they received unexpected money, honor, man’s applause, being healed of a disease or injury, gifts, things going right making life easier for ourselves… the list could go on and on. But Jesus gave us a new twist on how we should view blessings in
Luke 4:31-37 Click on this link to read the passage. You may select your own version of the Bible after the link opens. After leaving Nazareth, Jesus returned to the region of Galilee and went to the city of Capernium. On the Sabbath he went to the synagogue and taught the people who were amazed at the authority with which he spoke. A man in the crowd was possessed by a demon who knew who Jesus was. The demon began mocking
Luke 4:16-30 Click on this link to read the passage. You may select your own version of the Bible after the link opens. After Jesus began his public ministry in the region called Galilee he went to his hometown of Nazareth where the people had already heard rumors of the wonderful things he had been doing in the other towns. Jesus first went to the synagogue on the Sabbath, the same as he had done in the other towns. When he
Luke 4:14-15 Click on this link to read the passage. You may select your own version of the Bible after the link opens. These two verses immediately follow the account of Jesus and his time of temptation by Satan in the wilderness. This was the beginning of Jesus’ public ministry. Jesus went in the power of the Holy Spirit and began his ministry in the region around the Sea of Galilee. From these two verses, he must have been an instant
Isaiah 11:1-3 Click on link to read passage. You may select your own version of the Bible after the link opens. Jesus is the branch that was to come up from the stump of Jessie. This is one of the prophesies of the Old Testament that predicted the coming of the Messiah. Jessie was the father of David, and the Messiah was foretold to be descended from King David. The rest of this passage elaborates on the attributes of Jesus