Church of St. Clement | El Paso, Texas
Gospel: Luke 6.17-26. This text is Jesus’ ‘Sermon on the Plain’ which is an amended and abbreviated version of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5-7. Luke 6.27-38 is the subject of the next Sunday and continues the preceding sermon. Luke 6.20-23 is a reprise of the beatitudes of Matthew 5.3-12. The Lukan version... Continue Reading →
Gospel: Luke 5.1-11 tells of the miraculous catch of fish by Peter and other disciples at the Lord’s direction. Peter and his brother, Andrew, were fishermen by vocation on the Sea of Galilee. James and John and their father, Zebedee, were also. They had caught little when Jesus asked to be taken into Peter’s boat... Continue Reading →
Gospel: Luke 4.21-30 tells of Jesus in His hometown of Nazareth reading Isaiah 61.1-3 to the people gathered in the synagogue which says, “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me because the Lord has anointed Me to bring good news [the gospel] to the poor…” Jesus then sat down taking the posture of... Continue Reading →
Gospel: Luke 4.14-21 tells of Jesus in the synagogue in Nazareth reading Isaiah 61.1,2 which says, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me” and saying that “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.” This saying is referred to as the Nazareth Manifesto which is one of the shortest and most significant sayings... Continue Reading →
Gospel: Luke 3.7-18 tells of John the Baptist telling the crowds that came to be baptized by him that they needed to repent, that is turn from their hostility to the Romans and follow Christ, and that being descendants of Abraham was not enough to save them. He said believers must be compassionate and share... Continue Reading →
Gospel: Luke 3.1-6. This Gospel text makes the date of John the Baptist explicitly during the reign of Tiberius Caesar and Herod the Procurator (a local ruler appointed by Caesar) of Judea while Annas and his son, Caiaphas, were High Priests in Jerusalem. Luke is believed by historians to have been a careful and accurate... Continue Reading →
Gospel: Luke 21.25-36. This text repeats part of the Olivet Discourse of Mark 13.1-8 in which Jesus tells of a coming cataclysmic tribulation with signs in the heavens, fulfillment of the prophecy of Daniel 7 about the victorious coming of the Son of Man to the Ancient of Days indicating that redemption is near after... Continue Reading →
Gospel: John 18.33-37. Pilate asked Jesus if He was the king of the Jews. Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not from this world.” Pilate asked Him, “So you are a king.” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to... Continue Reading →
Gospel: Mark 13:1-8 is the Scripture titled ‘the Olivet Discourse.’ It is the conversation between Jesus and four of the disciples that took place while they sat on the Mount of Olives overlooking the Temple in which Jesus prophesied the destruction of the Temple and Jerusalem within that generation. Some skeptics have misinterpreted Jesus’ meaning... Continue Reading →
