December 10, 2025 Leadership Notes      What better time for a little lesson in Biblical Greek than two weeks before Christmas?      The New Testament uses a single Greek word… brephos… to refer to both an unborn child and a newborn infant. God’s Word does not treat life in the womb as a different category of humanity from life outside it. As Luke 1:41 reminds us, “ And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb.” Luke uses the word, brephos. And then, Luke 2:11-12...

December 7, 2025 Luke 13:1-9 “Born to Save” Here’s the big picture from these nine verses. It’s something you might want to write down: NOW IS THE TIME TO REPENT Almost nothing happens anymore without us knowing. It goes beyond the old adage, “If it bleeds, it leads.” From the ubiquitous cellphone to CCTV, when bad things happen, you will see it or hear about it. A recently completed bridge collapsed in China. A hurricane in Jamaica. Atrocities in Africa. A UPS jet crashed upon takeoff. These...

November 30, 2025 Luke 12:49-53 “On the Edge of Time” We’re now at the final section of chapter twelve that we’re going to delve into. The overall theme of this section could be best described as follows, and I quote: “GET READY…STAY READY.” We’ve carefully gone through chapter twelve because of its pivotal nature. Remember back in chapter nine. We read, “Jesus set his face toward Jerusalem.”  In other words, Luke emphasizes Jesus’ unwavering determination to travel to Jerusalem, knowing it...