Throughout Scripture, our Lord makes abundantly clear the importance of His followers bearing fruit for His glory... and yet He is patient. In today's lesson, we learn more about God's great patience through our examination of the parables unique to Luke. The metaphor in Luke 13:6-9 is crystal clear: the fruit Jesus longs for in our lives includes repentance and a complete embracing of our Saviour by faith and faith alone. "But the day of the Lord will come like a thief and the heavens will pass away with a roar..." (2 Peter 3:10) Are you ready?
Even the best of us have days of doubt and discouragement. In the midst of our discouragement we are called to look to Christ...
What an incredibly simple concept: when you put your faith in the Lord, you have nothing to fear; not today... not tomorrow... not ever!...
The theme throughout the old testament is that of the coming Messiah. We learn in today's passage that Jesus - the Messiah - came...