Luke
March 8 – Luke 7:40-56
Back to all discussion guides → Main Focus: The Bleeding Woman Jesus returns after spending time proclaiming the kingdom of God from town to town and the crowd welcomes him back for they were expecting him. Jairus, a leader of the synagogue falls at Jesus’ feet asking...
March 1 – Luke 7:36-50
Back to all discussion guides → Main Focus: Anointing Luke tells us the story of an unnamed woman who brings an alabaster jar of perfume to Jesus. Alabaster is a soft stone frequently used as a perfume container. Reclining toward a low center table(s), the feet of the...
February 22 – Luke 7:1-30
Back to all discussion guides → Main Focus: The Centurion and John the Baptist Who Is Jesus? Luke helps us answer the question by recounting two healing miracles (vv.1-10,11-17) and John’s testimony to Jesus (vv.18-35). Luke 7:1-10 tells us of Jesus healing a...
February 15 – Luke 6:1-11
Back to all discussion guides → Main Focus: Sabbath In this first Sabbath controversy, Jesus announces that he is lord of the Sabbath. On a Sabbath day his disciples plucked and ate some heads of grain. The law permitted plucking grain from another person’s field, but...
February 8 – Luke 5:27-32
Back to all discussion guides → Main Focus: Jesus Eats with Sinners In this part of Luke’s narrative we see that Jesus calls Levi to follow Him. Jesus brings forgiveness to a despised tax collector. In Palestine, tax collectors were representatives of the Roman...
February 1 – Luke 5:17-26
Back to all discussion guides → Main Focus: Healing of Paralytic Man In this section we see how Jesus has not only the power to heal but also the authority to forgive sin. We see also how he interacts with the Pharisees, they were the most influential of the three...
January 18 – Luke 4:38-5:11
Back to all discussion guides → Main Focus: Jesus Calls His First Disciples In this passage we see that Jesus has the power and authority to not only heal, but to call the unlikely (us) to follow after him. This week is the first of several in Jesus’s Galilean...
January 11 – Luke 3:21-22; 4:1-13
Back to all discussion guides → Main Focus: The Baptism and Temptation of Jesus Luke 3:21–22 describes Jesus’ Baptism. Jesus submits to John’s baptism of repentance to identify with Israel’s sin, foreshadowing the judgment he will endure at the cross. The heavens were...