What is the Kingdom of God like? In this passage of Luke, Jesus speaks about the kingdom of God. Jesus’ teaching is upsetting the expectations and assumptions of believers in Jesus’s day and expectations and assumptions of Christians today. We have...
Who’s God’s kingdom for? The religious leaders of the time, and even Jesus’s own disciples, had some ideas about who the kingdom was for, and who it wasn’t for. What do we bring to God for entrance into God’s kingdom? Jesus encourages us, as...
Become like children. How can one enter the kingdom of heaven? “Unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” Jesus uses some of the culture’s misunderstanding about how we ought to think about children to...
"What must I do to inherit eternal life?" That's the famous question from the rich young ruler. Just before this question was asked, all three synoptic gospels record the attempt of the disciples to prevent children from coming to him. How are these...
Luke 11:1