St. Timothy Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lombard Illinois

We go all the way back to the time of the patriarch Jacob who predicts the coming King: "The scepter will not depart from Judah or the staff from between his feet until he whose right it is comes and the obedience of the peoples belongs to him." (Gen. 49:10)

The author Luke is fanatical, you might say, about emphasizing the identity of Jesus of Nazareth as the true Messiah. From the time of his birth to more recent events, Jesus is set forth as the Messiah.

Luke 15:1-3, 11-32

At daybreak the council of the elders of the people, both the chief priests and the teachers of the law, met together, and Jesus was led before them.

evel. Biblically speaking, we can list several reasons why God allows suffering. Today's text focuses on just one of those.

They Bound Him

By calling a politician a fox, Jesus was not trying to change the political environment. Rather he was pointing out that this politician was willing to undermine, to stop, and even destroy Christ, the word about Christ, and the church Christ was establishing.

Luke 4:1-13: Then Jesus left the Jordan, full of the Holy Spirit, and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness 2 for forty days to be tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they were over, he was hungry. 3 The devil said to him, “If you are the Read more about Satan Hear This Proclamation[…]

I Will Keep the Passover

The reading of the transfiguration account is placed at the very end of the Epiphany season. It is the climax of the Epiphany season. That is because this bizarre and strange and miraculous event reveals more clearly to human eyes – in this case, the eyes of Peter, James, and John – that we are not dealing with an ordinary man here.