One day Jesus said to His disciples, “There will always be temptations to sin, but what sorrow awaits the person who does the tempting! It would be better to be thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around your neck than to cause one …
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Bible Gem 1093 – A Potpourri of Mini Teachings or Something More? (Luke 17:1-10)
One day Jesus said to His disciples, “There will always be temptations to sin, but what sorrow awaits the person who does the tempting! It would be better to be thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around your neck than to cause one …
Bible Gem 1071 – Using a Telescope and a Microscope – Putting it all Together (Luke 16:14-18)
The Pharisees, who dearly loved their money, heard all this and scoffed at Him. Then He said to them, “You like to appear righteous in public, but God knows your hearts. What this world honours is detestable in the sight of God. Until John the …
Bible Gem 1059 – Admiring the Dishonest Rascal (Luke 16:1-13)
Jesus told this story to His disciples: “There was a certain rich man who had a manager handling his affairs. One day a report came that the manager was wasting his employer’s money. So the employer called him in and said, ‘What’s this I hear …
Bible Gem 999 – What Reason? What is the Connection? (Luke 12:22-31)
And He said to His disciples, “For this reason I say to you, do not worry about your life, as to what you will eat; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. For life is more than food, and the body …
Bible Gem 971 – Father, I Need some Bread; Here’s a Stone Son (Luke 11:9-13)
“And so I tell you, keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to …
Bible Gem 848 – Why do You call Me Lord Lord? (Luke 6:46)
“A good tree doesn’t produce rotten fruit, and a rotten tree doesn’t produce good fruit. For every tree is known by its own fruit. People don’t gather figs from thorny plants or pick grapes from a thorn bush. A good person produces good from the …
Bible Gem 847 – What a Brilliant End to a Great Sermon! (Luke 6:43-49)
For there is not a good tree that produces bad fruit, nor a bad tree that produces good fruit. For each tree is known from its own fruit. For they do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush. …
Bible Gem 846 – A Pot-Pourri of Sermonettes or a Connected Whole? (Luke 6:43-49)
“A good tree doesn’t produce rotten fruit, and a rotten tree doesn’t produce good fruit. For every tree is known by its own fruit. People don’t gather figs from thorny plants or pick grapes from a thorn bush. A good person produces good from the …
Bible Gem 810 – Not Accepted in His Home Town (Luke 4:14-30)
Then Jesus returned to Galilee, filled with the Holy Spirit’s power. Reports about Him spread quickly through the whole region. He taught regularly in their synagogues and was praised by everyone. When He came to the village of Nazareth, His boyhood home, He went as …