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Sometimes in life we feel lost.  But just because we feel lost doesn’t mean that we are actually lost.  God is greater than our feelings and knows all things (1 John 3:20).  He knows exactly where we are.   Before we were born, the Lord knew us and called us (Jeremiah 1:5; Isaiah 43:1).  He knit us together in our… Read more

In Luke 8:43-48, we read about a woman suffering from a hemorrhage for 12 years, whom no one had been able to cure.  She had undergone long and painful treatment from various doctors and spent all she had, but her condition continued to worsen (Mark 5:26).  The woman came to Jesus and touched the fringe of his… Read more

In Luke 7:11-17, we read about a widow whose only son has died.  Verse 13 says, “when the Lord saw her, he felt sorry for her and said to her, don’t cry.”  Jesus then restored the young man to life and gave him to his mother (Luke 7:14-15).   The Lord’s gentleness and tenderness in this encounter are… Read more

In reading Luke 6, I was especially touched by two themes—first, how intimately the Lord knows each of us, and second, generosity (Luke 6:38).  In Luke 6:7, the scribes and Pharisees were watching Jesus to see if he would cure someone on the Sabbath, hoping to find a charge to bring against him.  Verse 8 says that… Read more

One of the passages within Luke 5 that especially touched me today was the cure of the paralyzed man and the perseverance of the man and his friends who brought him to Jesus for healing.  The word of God says, “now some men appeared, bringing on a bed a paralyzed man whom they were trying to… Read more

The theme that especially touched me in reading Luke 4 is the power of the word of God.  The chapter begins with Jesus’s testing in the desert by the devil.  Jesus resisted and rejected each of the devil’s temptations by quoting Scripture (Luke 4:4, 8, 12).  Then, “having exhausted every way of putting him to the test, the… Read more

We see from the third chapter of the Gospel of Luke that John the Baptist was very clear about his identity—who he was and who he was not.  Verse 15 says that “a feeling of expectancy had grown among the people, who were beginning to wonder whether John might be the Christ.”  He declared, “I baptize you… Read more

In reading the second chapter of the Gospel of Luke, three themes stood out to me, namely, joy, openness to the Holy Spirit, and prayer.   First, when an angel of the Lord appeared to the shepherds, the angel said, “I bring you news of great joy, a joy to be shared by the whole people.  Today… Read more

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, I hope you all are well.  I felt the Lord calling me to devote more time to reading the Scriptures this Advent, so I am hoping to read the Gospel of Luke and to share some short reflections over the course of this month.  I would like to invite you also… Read more

One of the devil’s tactics is to make us doubt our identity.  He is full of lies; in him, there is no truth at all (John 8:44).  In the desert, the devil tested Jesus by questioning his identity, whether he really was the Son of God—“if you are Son of God, tell this stone to turn into… Read more