Merry Christmas 2022!!! God is faithful! This wonderful message comes shining through the Christmas story. Listen and be encouraged.

We are beginning Luke chapter 16. It starts with the Parable of the Unjust Steward that's a challenging parable to understand. Yet if we pay close attention to what Jesus is teaching, and how it relates to the parable, all of a sudden it becomes easier to understand. What Jesus is teaching here is very radical so don't miss this lesson and the good it can do you.

We will finish studying the Parable of the Prodigal Son and chapter 15 in this lesson. This will include the father's response to his prodigal son's repentance, which had some profound meanings. Then we dig into the elder brother's reaction to learning that his wayward brother had returned home after living a wild life. The elder brother wasn't happy that the father put on a celebration for this young rebel. There are some powerful truths to glean from this message.

This lesson is on the Parable of the Prodigal Son. We began looking at it in our last lesson and are now immersed in it. We will see some of the cultural dynamics that are central to this parable. This will help us understanding more clearly what Jesus was teaching.

We turn our attention to Luke 15 in this lesson. In this chapter are three parables and we will look at the first two--The Lost Sheep and The Lost Coin.

These pave the way for longer parable of The Prodigal Son. We will only have time to begin looking at this third parable before the podcast ends. We will continue digging into the parable of The Prodigal Son in our next lesson.

We will study in this lesson some Christ's most radical teachings on true discipleship. The standard for those who want to be His true followers hasn't changed since He originally spoke those words. The question has always been and still is, do we really want to be a disciple of Christ? This is a powerful message, so don't miss it.

In this lesson we find that Jesus is still eating at a prominent Pharisee's house. He gives a very challenging parable that teaches who will and will not enter the Kingdom of God. This is a very important teaching, is also very radical.

There are two events that we will examine in this lesson. The first is when some Pharisees warned Jesus that Herod wanted to kill Him. The second is a dinner Jesus attended at a prominent Pharisee's home where the Lord healed a man with dropsy and taught on humility. There are some very challenging truths that will be dealt with in this study.

In this lesson we will examine what Jesus meant when He told us to make every effort to enter the Kingdom of God. We will also search out the meaning of what Jesus said about many will try to enter, but will not be able to. This is a very interesting lesson so don't miss it.

There are two principal topics in this lesson. The first is on the necessity of repentance being an integral part of a genuine Christian's life. The second is about the account where Jesus heals a demon possessed woman and the persecution that comes against Him as a result. This is a great lesson so don't miss it.