Luke 4:14-44 Casting Out Demons

December 11, 2018December 3, 2018 ~ KPB Stevens ~ Leave a comment

There are many ways of thinking about demons, and they all have seeds of wisdom in them. Skepticism is our default reaction when we hear about demons, and often we lace our skepticism with a trace of contempt for the past. But skepticism itself has some spiritual value. We don’t want to make too much … Continue reading Luke 4:14-44 Casting Out Demons

Luke 3:1-20 Everything We Know About Power, Undone

December 7, 2018November 30, 2018 ~ KPB Stevens ~ Leave a comment

Gardner Taylor, the great preacher and Civil Rights leader, began a sermon on Luke’s third chapter by slowly reading the names and titles of the authorities. “In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of … Continue reading Luke 3:1-20 Everything We Know About Power, Undone