Do you feel the internal pressure to constantly make everyone happy? Are you familiar with the anxiety and exhaustion that produces? Well, the Bible has some encouragement for you. In Galatians 1, Apostle Paul asks one of the most profound questions in all of Scripture: Am I now seeking the approval of man, or of…

Wouldn’t you love to have peace? All the world is looking for peace, but they typically look in all the wrong places: in their routines, in their relationships, in their own best efforts. All of that looking, and still, they can’t find peace. In the opening of his letter to the Galatians, Apostle Paul, with…

What if I told you that Jesus has given you a mission bigger than your ability to accomplish? And what if I also told you that’s exactly the point? Just before the resurrected Jesus departed and ascended into Heaven, we read in Luke 24 that He commissioned His followers with a huge task: go proclaim…

Have you ever gotten news so good you couldn’t wait to tell someone? You didn’t rehearse it. You didn’t schedule a convenient time. You just picked up the phone and told the first person who answered what had just happened. That’s basically what happened in Luke 24. The resurrected Jesus had been with these two…

Do you ever wonder if Jesus is walking with you? On that first Easter Sunday, we read in Luke 24 that two men were heading out of Jerusalem, walking along the road toward a little town called Emmaus. They were part of the larger group of Jesus’s disciples. As they walked, they were talking and…

On that first Easter morning, we read in Luke 24 that some of the women who had followed Jesus came back with spices for His corpse. To everybody’s surprise, they got an empty tomb instead. The angels who appeared there asked a pointed question: “Why do you seek the living among the dead?” That’s a…

Make no mistake, Jesus was innocent. Pilate, the Roman governor, said it twice. Herod, the Jewish vassal king, agreed. Yet, we read in Luke 23 that through the crowd’s influence, they released a murderer named Barabbas and condemned Jesus, the sinless Son of God, to death by crucifixion. By any measure, this is history’s greatest…

We read in Luke 22 that Judas betrayed Jesus with a kiss and that Peter denied Him with a curse. One act was perhaps confused but calculated. The other was born in a moment of sheer panic. But both men had a massive failure. Now, let’s be honest, we like to think we’re different. There’s…

The garden was quiet. The disciples were asleep. And Jesus, the Son of God, was on His knees praying, profusely sweating huge drops tinged with blood. That’s what we read in Luke 22:41-44. He cried out to the Father, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me.” Jesus knew the suffering that was…

Have you ever thought about how you want to spend the final moments of your life? As we near the end of Luke’s Gospel, in chapter 21, Jesus knew what was coming. The cross was hours away. His time was short. He was in His final moments of freedom before His suffering and death. And…