The Gospel of Luke

The publication of The Essential Jesus is a great opportunity to preach through Luke. Below are scripts for 3o minute sermons. I am also working up 10 minute talks.

Sermon Scripts

Note: There are two types of manuscripts here. Most are 30 minute sermons of around 3000 words. However, I am working up some 8-10 minute talks of around 800 words each. These are indented underneath the longer sermons.

The Essential Coming of Jesus (Luke 1-3)

Luke 1: An Essential Jesus Announced

Short Talks

Luke 1:1-17 (cf. 1:57-80): John the Baptist's Birth

Luke 1:26-38: The Annunciation

Luke 1:39-55: The Magnificat (Mary's Magnification of the Lord)

Luke 2: An Essential Saviour is Born

Luke 3: Repentance an Essential Preparation: John the Baptist, and Jesus' Baptism

The Essence of Jesus' Ministry In Galilee (Luke 4:1-9:50)

Luke 4: The Essence of Jesus' Job

Luke 5: Forgiveness and Following Jesus Essential

Luke 6:1-16: The Lord of the Sabbath Selects the Twelve

Luke 6:17-49: The Sermon on the Plain

Luke 7:1-35: The Essence of Faith in the Coming One

Luke 7:36-50: The Essence of Salvation by Faith Evidenced by Love (Jesus Anointed by a Sinful Woman)

Luke 8:1-18: The Essence of the Kingdom of God (The Parables of the Sower and the Lamp)

Luke 8:19-25: Jesus Silences the Storm and Slights His Family

Luke 8:26-39: Jesus Heals the Demon-Possessed Man

Luke 8:40-56: Two Daughters Rescued

Luke 9:1-17: Mission Unstoppable 1: The Mission of the Twelve and the Feeding of the Five Thousand

Luke 9:18-36: The Essential Question Answered and the Essential Mission Announced (Peter Confesses Jesus as the Christ at Caesarea Phillipi, the Transfiguration)

Luke 9:37-50: An Essential Healing, a Second Prediction

Jesus' Essential Journey To Jerusalem (Luke 9:51-19:27)

Luke 10:1-20: Mission Unstoppable 2: The Mission of the Seventy

Luke 10:21-25: Jesus' Joy

Luke 10:25-37: Two Essential Questions Answered (The Parable of the Good Samaritan)

Luke 10:38-42: To Sit or To Serve: Two Sisters and their Saviour

Luke 11:1-13: Heavenly and Human Fatherhood: The Essentials Of Fatherhood

Luke 11:14-36: Jesus the Stronger Man Subduing Satan

Luke 11:37-54: Jesus Criticises of the Religious Leaders

Luke 12: The Essential Attitude to This Life's Essentials

Luke 12:58-13:9: The Essence of Jesus' Attitude to Suffering and Salvation

Luke 13:31-35: Jesus Journeys to His Own Death and Jerusalem's Desolation

Luke 15:11-32: An Essential Appeal To Two Lost Sons (The Parable of the Two Sons)

Luke 16:1-15: Essential Planning for an Inevitable Future (The Parable of the Dishonest Manager)

Luke 17: The Essential Coming of the Kingdom

Luke 18:1-9: A Parable About Prayer At Journey's End

Luke 18:10-14: Propitiation Essential For Justification (The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector)

Luke 18:15-34: God Essential For Salvation Because No-one is Good (The Rich Young Ruler)

Luke 18:35-41: The Blind Man Who Sees the Merciful Son of David

Luke 19:1-10: Salvation Comes To Zaccheus: Jesus In Jericho'

Luke 19:11-44: The Christ on the Edge: Jesus Enters Jerusalem, and the Parable of the Minas

The Final Week in Jerusalem and Jesus' Exodus (Luke 20-24)

Luke 20: Jesus Teaching in the Temple: The Parable of the Tenants and Silencing His Opponents

Luke 21: The Destruction of the Temple Essential

Luke 22: The Essential Will and Purpose Is God's

Luke 22:66-23:26: The Trial Before Herod and Pilate

Luke 23:27-56: An Essential Death

Luke 24:1-12: An Essential Resurrection Part 1: Witnessed By Women

Luke 24:13-35: An Essential Resurrection Part 2: The Risen Lord Reveals Himself

Luke 24:36-53: An Essential Announcement to the Ends of the Earth