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He is not here, he is risen.

If there is one thing that is clear from all of the gospels, and if there is one thing that all the gospels make clear that Jesus understood about himself, it was that he came to die.

Jesus was the promised King who would sit on the throne forever. When he rode into Jerusalem on a donkey at the beginning of the last week of his life, there was no mistaking the symbolism and significance.

Many people had encounters with Jesus. Here we find what Luke records as the last three personal encounters Jesus had before he entered Jerusalem for the last week of his life.

Perhaps the most famous parable Jesus told, but have we done it a disservice by not seeing clearly where we fit into it?

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.- Jim Elliot

Nothing in my hand I bring, simply to thy cross I cling. Naked come to thee for dress, helpless look to thee for grace. Foul I to the fountain fly, wash me savior, or I die.- Augustus Toplady

Isaiah 40:1-2 [1] Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. [2] Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned...

Jeremiah 8:22- Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?

Isaiah 53:3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Hebrews 2:18 "For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted."

You endeavor to prove an incredible and well nigh impossible thing; that God endured to be born and become Man. – Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho

What is the gospel? What were the gospels of the New Testament? Who is Luke? Why should we listen to him? This semester we'll be looking at the good news of and about Jesus according to the gospel of Luke. In his opening verses Luke wants us to be certain of something: that Jesus really is good news.

Day 2 of Elliott's dating seminar from Week 2 of SuCo 2017. In the first talk, Elliott explored the "What" and the "Why" of dating. In the second talk, he explores the "How."

Day 1 of Elliott's dating seminar from Week 2 of SuCo 2017. In the first talk, Elliott explores the "What" and the "Why" of dating.

What is the purpose of heaven? Why think about it or talk about it? Is it just the place we go when we die? Is it just the better option to hell? What if we're given a vision of our final destiny, not so we can manage and survive in this life, but so that we can thrive?

There is perhaps no more hotly discussed or debated chapter in Revelation that chapter 20 dealing with the the 1000 years, Satan's binding and the first and second resurrection. What we can we all agree on? We're destined for thrones.

As John's visions recorded in Revelation draw to a close he sees the destiny toward which all history is moving. What he sees, but really hears, is the eruption of heaven in thunderous praise. Why? Because God wins. But, more importantly, love wins.

What is the most dangerous thing about the hostile entities arrayed against the people of God and the world? We are often awed by their splendor and power, to the point that no one is invulnerable to to their sway.

The Dragon of Rev. 12 does not work alone. In Rev. 13 Johns sees the work of the Unholy Trinity, 666, made up of the dragon, the beast from the sea, and the beast from the land. A scary image in itself sure, but even scarier still is that the "whole earth" marvels at their works.