The Long Thread
Jesus clears a market out of the temple, and most of us read it as a story about corruption, dishonest dealing, an institution gone wrong. Read on, and a four-word phrase Mark includes and Luke leaves out tells a different story entirely. It runs from a prophet's promise, through a Roman officer's rooftop vision, into a letter written from prison, and lands on a question that's still open: who's standing close enough to pray, and who's been moved to where they can only watch? Terry traces the thread. Where it runs through us is still being decided.
Series Information
Terry proclaims the one Gospel through the history, research, rememberings and faith expressed in the text of the Gospel According to Luke. Jesus himself is the good news expressed by Luke. Beginning with the birth narratives unique to Luke's presentation, the good news of the Kingdom explodes into faithful view as each account, teaching, parable and event lived out and offered by Jesus, the Messiah-King, is examined the way Luke seemingly examined Jesus in his own work. Here we find a Jesus to love, a Jesus to follow, and ultimately a Jesus to worship.