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Since December, we’ve primarily been walking through Luke on Sunday mornings, a journey that will continue well into the Easter season. All of the gospels tell beautiful stories that help us know Christ better and walk with Him more each day. But the Gospel of Luke has always been my favorite. He includes the Parable of the Good Samaritan, emphasizing that our neighbors are found everywhere. The Gospel of Matthew includes the Parable of the Lost Sheep, but Luke extends the theme to include two other parables: the Lost Coin  and the Lost (or Prodigal) Son, showing how much God rejoices whenever someone returns home to Him. Luke cares about the poor, and believes that we should as well, as seen in his Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus.

And Luke, who seems to be the only non-Jewish author of a gospel, wrote another book almost as long as his Gospel. The Acts of the Apostles is the only book of its kind in Scripture, detailing how Jesus’ disciples spread his message and how the church was formed. We’ll dive into this book from  May through November, learning about all that happened after Christ had ascended into heaven.

If you aren’t already receiving Sunday morning’s scriptures via email, let me or the church office know that you’d like to sign up. Since we won’t cover all of Luke and Acts on Sunday mornings, consider reading those passages between the ones read in Sunday worship. It’s a wonderful way to hear the narrative as a whole, getting a sense for how Luke has composed his masterpieces, and the beautiful, true story he tells about our Lord, Christ Jesus.

And if you have any questions about what you read, I’d invite you to join us for adult Sunday School after worship or I’d love to sit down and discuss it individually. I can’t promise to have the answers but through mutual study and discussion of scripture, we can dig deeper into our faith and walk with Christ. May we be enchanted by the story Luke tells, and may we be inspired to live according to the truth we encounter there.

Blessings,

Pastor Annie



Pastor Annie McMillan