Crossway Christian Church

This passage begins what we call the Passion Week as Jesus enters Jerusalem, dies on the cross, and is raised back to life. This is the most important week of Jesus' life and you cannot rightly understand the rest of Luke's Gospel, even the rest of Christianity, apart from this week.

In the midst of those who were following Jesus but who couldn't see with clarity what his mission was, nor how he would bring about this kingdom, Jesus drew on a striking cultural image to make things clear. This parable can help us think rightly and live for Christ and his kingdom.

This story of Jesus and Zacchaeus is a true, historical event. But it's also exemplary. There is a pattern here Luke has been repeating over and over again throughout his Gospel. He is not only showing the power of Christ to save and change lives, but also the basic response of discipleship that should follow.

Luke tells us about a group of people who are spiritually blind but think they can see. At the same time, he tells us about a man who is physically blind but can spiritually see. There's a great contrast in these verses between blindness and sight and it all revolves around the gospel of Jesus Christ.

By God's grace, the Reformers recovered a sharper vision of the gospel itself, and from that gospel clarity came a reformed Church; a Church that better knew God and his saving grace, allowing its people to better live according to his ways.

How will Jesus respond to the question, "What must I do to be saved?" The answer is important even because the question is still important today? How will anyone be saved from their sins? The answer comes down to this question: what do you really love? What do you really trust? Are you willing to leave behind everything and follow Jesus? Or are there some things you cannot leave behind?

Here we see the picture of what discipleship should look like for those who believe the gospel message. In fact, it's actually from the picture of the gospel we see here that Jesus makes the application that he does. From these verses we see why we should imitate Jesus and his attitude toward children.

Doug Brubaker exposits the letter from the Apostle Paul to his brothers in Christ. His reason for writing is to rebuke the people infiltrating the church with a false message.

Here we look at what God's Word says being anxious looks like and why not to do it. Jesus gives us reasons not to be anxious.

Jesus tells us a parable that reveals hidden attitudes and lifestyles that stand contrary to God's will and word. In this short parable, Jesus makes clear the way of salvation.

Jesus tells another parable. Why? To encourage us to always pray and not lose heart. Here is see how this is meant to be applied to our lives, how we're supposed to think about God in prayer.

How you think about the coming of Christ should affect how you live. Jesus is coming again. Here we see the truths that Jesus tells - what his kingdom will be like, when it will come, and how we should live in it.

These verses center around one thing: faith. Specifically, Jesus is showing what the life of gospel faith looks like. By using the term "gospel faith" we distinguish the vision of life before God that Jesus presents - against the fruit of false faith seen in the lives of the Pharisees.

As we hear Jesus' words, we see important truths that should make us reflect on our own hearts and consider our own ways. Then in light of all this, we should respond in two ways.

From the outset of this passage, we are reminded not only of who Jesus is but we also see the dangers of money and how Jesus' disciples should not only regard money but use money wisely for God's kingdom.

From the outset of this passage, we are reminded not only of who Jesus is but why he has come. Three stories intended to come together to teach us the same truth. How will we respond to Jesus' search and rejoicing? Will we stand back like the Pharisees, wanting to avoid sinners? Or will we join in the work of Christ in searching for the lost and rejoicing when they're found?

When we come to passages like this, we face the temptation to lower the intensity of Jesus' words until it is more tolerable to us. If we had to summarize the passage in one sentence, I think it would be this: Salvation is free but discipleship will cost you everything.

The U.S. State Department says that more than 60 countries are hostile to Christians. How should we think about these things? What should we do about the situation believers face? Hebrews 10 can help us to have a better understanding, a better way of thinking about the suffering church today. It will help bring clarity not only to the kinds of things that they go through, but how we should respond to the plight of our brothers and sisters around the world.

Jesus shows us the kind of life that should mark those that are part of God's kingdom. Furthermore, Jesus also shows how a failure to embrace this kind of selfless life can keep us from the kingdom altogether.

Here we look to God's Word to discover the condition of man and God's plan to remedy that condition.