Luke
May 10 – Luke 24:46-49
Back to all discussion guides → Main Focus: The Great Commission That Christ should suffer is often repeated to emphasize that Jesus’ death and resurrection were necessary in order to fulfill God’s providential plan. At the heart of the plan is repentance by first...
May 3 – Luke 12:13-34
Back to all discussion guides → Main Focus: Anxiety “Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” But he said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or arbitrator over you?” Because of Jesus’ teaching on covetousness,...
April 26 – Luke 15:1-32
Back to all discussion guides → Main Focus: Lost Parable The parables of Jesus are directed to the Pharisees and scribes. The lost sheep, lost coin, and prodigal son all correspond to lost sinners being found by Jesus. The first parable is about a man who leaves the...
April 19 – Luke 24:13-34
Back to all discussion guides → Main Focus: Road to Emmaus The Road to Emmaus is a post-resurrection narrative where two disciples, walking from Jerusalem to Emmaus, encounter Jesus but do not recognize him (v.16). He explains Old Testament prophecies about himself...
March 22 – Luke 18:18-30; 19:1-10
Back to all discussion guides → Main Focus: Rich Young Ruler / Zaccheaus Jesus’ encounter with the rich ruler answers the question with which it begins: “What must I do to inherit eternal life?” The rich young ruler was likely a ruler of a synagogue. He says to Jesus...
March 15 – Luke 9:28-36
Back to all discussion guides → Main Focus: Transfiguration Questions about Jesus’ identity abound in the first 9 chapters of Luke. Peter says rightly in Luke 9:20, “He is the Christ of God.” Now, here in vv 28-36 the question is decisively answered by God Himself....
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...