Category: Luke 23
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Eclipse!
Luke 23:44-45 “It was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour, while the sun’s light failed.” I found it interesting to hear that over 60 percent of those who experience a total eclipse react to that experience emotionally. Some of the reporters that spoke on…
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Which Side?
Luke 23:39-43 “One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him, saying, ’Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!’ But the other rebuked him, saying, ‘Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man has…
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The Forgiver of Sins
Luke 23:34 “And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” Matthew 26:73-75 “After a little while the bystanders came up and said to Peter, ‘Certainly you too are one of them, for your accent betrays you.’ Then he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, ‘I do not know the man.’ And…
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The squeeze
Luke 23:43 “And he said to him, ‘Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.’” Quite a few years ago a missionary was in our church talking to us about what he called “the squeeze.” “The squeeze” as he put it, were those times in life when we may be…
To Encourage You 