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June 18, 2023, Bible Study in Luke 9.

Did Jesus sin when He, on the sabbath day, healed the man at the Pool of Bethesda who had been disabled for 38 years? Did Jesus sin when He told this man to stand up, pick up his bed and walk? He said, "My Father worketh until now, and I work."

Have you ever tried to avoid God and flee from doing His will? Jonah sought to hide from the LORD when commanded to go and warn the people of Ninevah of God's impending judgment so that they might repent and look to God for mercy. As these first chapters reveal, trying to flee from the presence of God doesn't work out so well.

Sermon in on first part of Romans 8

There was a problem for those who should have rejoiced at this miracle of God and the mercy shown to this helpless man. It was the Sabbath! Instead of praising God for healing this poor man, the Jewish leaders confronted the man, saying, “It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.”

Bible Study at Good Shepherd on June 4, 2023. Luke 8:1-25

Worship at Good Shepherd on June 4, 2023, Trinity Sunday.

Consider the nobleman who came to Jesus while at Cana in Galilee. He came to Jesus from Capernaum (in the valley along the Sea of Galilee) because his son was deathly ill, and he asked Jesus to come down to Capernaum and heal his son. But what did Jesus say? “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will not believe.”

Worship on Pentecost with Acts 2 reading and message.

How is it that one can receive the gift of the Holy Spirit? How can one “be filled with the Spirit,” as the Apostle Paul commands us in Ephesians 5:18?