In the sight of angels I will sing your praises, Lord (Psalm 137). Luke describes the call of Peter, James and John in vivid detail: the crowds pressing about Jesus as he instructs them on the shores of Lake Gennesaret. We can fill in the details; blue sky, sea birds, sunshine, lapping water and three …
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I will sing of your salvation (Psalm 70). No one likes to be told and to have to listen to home truths! The people of Nazareth certainly didn’t, even when it was Truth itself speaking to them. Jesus was reproaching them for their lack of perception and narrow-mindedness, failing to see that He was anything …
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Your words, Lord, are spirit and life (Psalm 18). Luke opens his Gospel with statements attesting to its accuracy and veracity. As he says in his first sentence, many accounts were drawn up of the events surrounding Jesus’ life and death and handed down by eyewitnesses and ministers of the word. Luke examines these accounts …
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Proclaim is marvelous deeds to all the nations (Psalm 95). I wonder if the young couple who were getting married at Cana in Galilee in 30AD knew they had the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, the Son of God, as a guest at their wedding reception. They also had the Mother of God among …
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The Lord will bless his people with peace (Psalm 28). Luke tells us in his account of Jesus’ baptism that upon being baptized Jesus went and prayed. It is this description of the Lord’s baptism that theologians favour most because it is deeply contemplative. While quietly at prayer, the Holy Spirit descended on Jesus as a …
