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Luk_1:10 The Church’s Power
Luk_1:17 A Prepared People
Luk_1:20 Dumb, Because of Unbelief
Luk_1:26; Luk_1:28 Highly favoured of the Lord
Luk_1:30-31 The Promised Son
Luk_1:30-31 A New Power
Luk_1:32 In Confirmation of Faith
Luk_1:33 And Endless Kingdom
Luk_1:35, r.v. The Virgin Birth
Luk_1:35, r.v. The Incarnation and Brotherhood
Luk_1:38 Woman’s True Avocation
Luk_1:46-55 The Song of the Virgin
Luk_1:70 Modern Prophets
Luk_1:74-75 Deliverance and Service
Luk_1:76 The Prophet of the Highest
Luk_1:79 The Way of Peace
Luk_1:80 The Virtues of Asceticism
Luk_2:7 No Room!
Luk_2:7 Crowded Out
Luk_2:8-9, r.v. The Angelic Vision
Luk_2:11 The Birthday of Christ
Luk_2:10-11 The Unseen from Heaven
Luk_2:13 The Christmas Song
Luk_2:14 Pleas for Peace
Luk_2:14 A Religion of Peace
Luk_2:15 The Turning Point in the World’s History
Luk_2:16 The Holy Family
Luk_2:16 The Shepherds’ Visit
Luk_2:18-20 Christmas Thoughts and Feelings
Luk_2:21 The Name Above every Name
Luk_2:22 The Purification and the Presentation
Luk_2:22 Fulfilling the Law
Luk_2:25 ‘The Consolation of Israel’
Luk_2:32 Walking in the Light
Luk_2:34 Falling or Rising
Luk_2:42-51 The Temple and the Home
Luk_2:46 Christ Lost and Found
Luk_2:46 The Boyhood of Christ
Luk_2:49 A Divine Necessity
Luk_2:49 A Condition of Life
Luk_2:49 The Purpose of Life
Luk_2:51-52 At Nazareth
Luk_2:52 Increasing in Wisdom
Luk_3:1-2 The Word of God
Luk_3:3 The Baptist’s Message
Luk_3:4-6 Earnestness in Religion
Luk_3:10 ‘What shall we do?’
Luk_3:15-16 A Mightier than John
Luk_3:19-20 A Sharp Contrast
Luk_3:21-22 The First Calvary
Luk_4:1-2 Christ in the Wilderness
Luk_4:1-2 The Conflict
Luk_4:2-4 Tempted through the Body
Luk_4:7 Tempted through the World
Luk_4:9-12 Tempted through Presumption
Luk_4:21 Prophecy Fulfilled
Luk_4:21 Divine Enduement
Luk_4:24-27 Faith and Grace
Luk_4:32 The Power Behind
Luk_5:1 On Hearing Sermons
Luk_5:1 The Modern Sermon
Luk_5:1 Concentrative Christianity
Luk_5:3 Christ’s Work in the World
Luk_5:4 Launch Out!
Luk_5:4 Christ and Christ’s World
Luk_5:5 ‘At Thy Word’
Luk_5:5 ‘Nevertheless’
Luk_5:8 God and Ourselves
Luk_5:8 Conviction of Sin
Luk_5:10 The Function and Significance of Miracle
Luk_5:10 Fishers of Men
Luk_5:10 The Minister’s Calling
Luk_5:16 Spiritual Solitude
Luk_5:32 Christ’s Call
Luk_5:39 The Excellence of the Liturgy
Luk_6:12 The Praying Christ
Luk_6:26 The Dangers of Popularity
Luk_6:36-42 Divine Precepts
Luk_6:36 Mercy
Luk_6:36 Mercy—Its Scope and Quality
Luk_6:38 Judgment
Luk_6:38 Reciprocity
Luk_6:40 Like unto the Master
Luk_6:40 The Finished Christian
Luk_6:42 The Sin of Hypocrisy
Luk_7:4-9 Three Estimates of Character
Luk_7:11 The Prince of Life
Luk_7:12 Life from the Dead
Luk_7:12 The Weeping Widow
Luk_7:13 ‘Weep Not’
Luk_7:19 The Final Revelation
Luk_7:35 Children of Wisdom
Luk_7:35 Perverseness and Sympathy
Luk_7:37-38 Tears of Penitence
Luk_7:42 Nothing to Pay
Luk_7:47 The Result of Forgiveness
Luk_7:50 Christ and the Penitent
Luk_7:50 Go in Peace
Luk_8:5 The Sower and the Seed
Luk_8:5 Beneath the Surface
Luk_8:5 The Soil of the Heart
Luk_8:5-6 Sowers for the Kingdom
Luk_8:8 An Honest and Good Heart
Luk_8:10 Mysteries made Known
Luk_8:11 The Word as the Seed
Luk_8:12 Satan’s Evil Work
Luk_8:13 Roots of the Christian Life
Luk_8:14 Half-hearted Christians
Luk_8:15 Generous Soil
Luk_8:15 Be Patient
Luk_8:18 Take Heed!
Luk_8:24 Christ and the Elements
Luk_8:25 Faith and its Evidences
Luk_8:39 Testimony at Home
Luk_8:45 The Power of a Touch
Luk_8:45 Christ the Healer
Luk_9:2-6 The Commission of the Twelve
Luk_9:13 No Power in Ourselves
Luk_9:23 The Christian Life
Luk_9:26 Grounds of Judgment
Luk_9:29 The Vision on the Mount
Luk_9:32 The Mount and the Plain
Luk_9:33 A Mistaken View
Luk_9:34 The Overshadowing Cloud
Luk_9:41 The Care of the Child
Luk_9:48-50 The Pride of the Disciples
Luk_9:51 The Fascination of the Cross
Luk_9:54 Sons of Thunder or Sons of Christ?
Luk_9:55-56 Not Destruction but Salvation
Luk_9:62 Lessons from the Plough
Luk_9:62 Spiritual Ploughmen
Luk_10:1 The Mission of the Seventy
Luk_10:5 A Cordial Salutation
Luk_10:9 Characteristics of the Message
Luk_10:18 A True Sense of Proportion
Luk_10:20 Temptations of a Useful Life
Luk_10:21 The Joy of the Lord
Luk_10:21 The Joy of the Lord’s People
Luk_10:23-24 Privileges and Responsibility
Luk_10:27 The First and Great Commandment
Luk_10:27 The Law of Life
Luk_10:28 Knowledge and Practice
Luk_10:29 Self Justification
Luk_10:29 The Development of Character
Luk_10:29 A Moral Revelation
Luk_10:30 A Picture of Brotherly Love
Luk_10:30 The Wounded Traveller
Luk_10:30 The Samaritan’s Deed
Luk_10:35 Take Care of Him
Luk_10:35 God’s Repayments
Luk_10:36-37 The Worker and the Work
Luk_10:37 Practical Christianity
Luk_10:38-42 The Two Sisters
Luk_10:38-42 True Service
Luk_11:1 A Hearty Desire to Pray
Luk_11:2 The Lord’s Prayer
Luk_11:2 What is the Lord’s Prayer?
Luk_11:2 The Hallowed Name and the Hallowed Life
Luk_11:2 God’s Empire
Luk_11:2 The Subjection of Man’s Will
Luk_11:3 Man Dependent
Luk_11:4 Sin and its Forgiveness
Luk_11:4 Temptation
Luk_11:8 The Friend at Midnight
Luk_11:8 Importunity in Prayer
Luk_11:9 Commanding Prayer
Luk_11:14 The Effect of Permitted Sin
Luk_11:21-22 The Strong Man Overcome
Luk_11:23 For or Against?
Luk_11:23 No Neutrality
Luk_11:24-25 The Human House
Luk_11:26 The Last State
Luk_11:26 The Return of the Devil
Luk_11:27-28 Hearing and Keeping God’s Word
Luk_11:27-28 The Power of the Book
Luk_11:29 Asking for a Sign
Luk_11:36 Spiritual Light
Luk_11:54 The New Liberty
Luk_12:4-5 The Fear of Hell
Luk_12:8 Confessing Christ
Luk_12:10 The Unpardonable Sin
Luk_12:15 A Man’s Life
Luk_12:15 What will you do with your Life?
Luk_12:18-20 The Rich Fool
Luk_12:18-20 The Rich Man’s Folly
Luk_12:18-20 What the Rich Man Forgot
Luk_12:32 The Ministry and the Kingdom
Luk_12:35-36 Ideals Lost and Recovered
Luk_12:35-36 Burning Lights
Luk_12:43 The Responsibility of Opportunity
Luk_12:50 Christ’s Baptism of Suffering
Luk_13:3; Luk_13:5 The Judgments of God
Luk_13:3; Luk_13:5 The Galilæans’ Warnings
Luk_13:6-9 The Spiritual Growth of Life
Luk_13:6-9 The Barren Fig Tree
Luk_13:8 One more Chance
Luk_13:11-14 The Uplifting Power of the Gospel
Luk_13:18-19 The Gospel in the World
Luk_13:20-21 The Gospel in the Heart
Luk_13:23 A Puzzling Question
Luk_13:23-24 The Puzzling Question Answered
Luk_13:23-24 The Answer of the Life
Luk_13:35 The Desolate House
Luk_14:1 Sabbath Works and Words
Luk_14:3 The Spirit of Sunday Observance
Luk_14:10 In the Lowest Room
Luk_14:10-11 Humility and its Reward
Luk_14:10-11 The Doom of Pride
Luk_14:10-11 Man’s Abasement
Luk_14:14 The General Resurrection
Luk_14:15 Eating Bread in the Kingdom
Luk_14:16 The Great Supper
Luk_14:17 The Great Invitation
Luk_14:17 The Satisfaction of the Gospel
Luk_14:17 Why Men Hesitate
Luk_14:18 Innocent Occupations
Luk_14:18 Excuses
Luk_14:22 Where and For Whom there is Room
Luk_14:22 The Largeness of God’s Love
Luk_14:23 Compelled Guests
Luk_14:28; Luk_14:30 Tower Building
Luk_14:28; Luk_14:30 The True Aim of Discipleship
Luk_14:28; Luk_14:30 Examples of Counting the Cost
Luk_14:33 The Genius of the Christian Religion
Luk_14:33 The Final Condition of Discipleship
Luk_15:2 Exclusiveness and Formality
Luk_15:2 Penitence and Communion
Luk_15:2 Christ receiveth Sinful Men
Luk_15:4 The Sheep that was Lost
Luk_15:6 The Sheep Found
Luk_15:8 The Lost Coin
Luk_15:8 The Preciousness of Each Soul
Luk_15:6-9 Lost and Found
Luk_15:10 The Doctrine of Sin
Luk_15:11 The Two Sons
Luk_15:17 The Prodigal Son
Luk_16:1-8 The Man who Acted Wisely
Luk_16:2 Called to Account
Luk_16:4 A Good Resolution
Luk_16:8 The World and the Church
Luk_16:9 Make Friends
Luk_16:14-15 God’s Ways and Men’s Ways
Luk_16:19-20 Living and Dying
Luk_16:19-20 Dives and Lazarus
Luk_16:30-31 Vain Hopes
Luk_16:30-31 The Testimony of Scripture
Luk_17:1-2 Offenders of Others
Luk_17:5 The Growth of Faith
Luk_17:10 Self-Righteousness Checked
Luk_17:12-14 The Cleansed Men
Luk_17:15-16 At the Feet of Jesus
Luk_17:17 Ingratitude
Luk_17:17 A Defect in Christian Character
Luk_17:20-21 The Coming of the Kingdom
Luk_17:20-21 Truths of the Kingdom
Luk_17:20-21 ‘Your Reasonable Service’
Luk_17:22 A Day of the Son of Man
Luk_17:26; Luk_17:28; Luk_17:30 Three Critical Days
Luk_18:1 ‘Pray, Always Pray’
Luk_18:8 Religious Unsettlement
Luk_18:8 The Decay of Faith
Luk_18:10 Like Purpose, Different Method
Luk_18:13 The Plea for Mercy
Luk_18:14 Misconceptions Removed
Luk_18:14 A Churchman’s Failure
Luk_18:16 Lessons from Children
Luk_18:19 The Young Ruler
Luk_18:31-34 The Christian Attitude towards Suffering
Luk_18:31-34 The Future
Luk_18:35 Spiritual Blindness
Luk_18:41 Seeking Sight
Luk_19:2 Zacchæus
Luk_19:6 Zacchæus and Christ
Luk_19:10 Christ’s Mission of Mercy
Luk_19:13 A Motto for Life
Luk_19:17 Faithfulness in Little Things
Luk_19:38 The Coming King
Luk_19:41 Why Jesus Wept
Luk_19:41 Christian Responsibility
Luk_19:41 The Tears of Jesus
Luk_19:41 Indifference
Luk_19:41 Woes of a Great City
Luk_19:42 The Commandingness of Christ
Luk_19:44 Times of Visitation
Luk_19:44 Is God Visiting Us?
Luk_19:45-46 Cleansing the Temple
Luk_19:46 A House of Prayer
Luk_20:8 The Sufficiency of Revelation
Luk_20:15 The Wicked Husbandmen
Luk_20:25 No Division of Allegiance
Luk_20:36 The Life of the World to Come
Luk_20:37 Burning and not Consumed
Luk_20:38 Alive unto God
Luk_21:4 Christ’s Standard of Giving
Luk_21:5-6 The Presence of Christ
Luk_21:19 Patience
Luk_21:27 The Coming of the Son of Man
Luk_21:27 Neglect not Prophecy
Luk_21:28 Redemption
Luk_21:33-34 Eternal Words
Luk_21:38 Examples of Early Services
Luk_22:2-5 Planning the Betrayal
Luk_22:15 Christ and the Passover
Luk_22:19 In Remembrance of Me
Luk_22:19 The Communion Feast
Luk_22:24 The True Way to Greatness
Luk_22:31-32 Strengthen thy Brethren
Luk_22:36 Buy a Sword
Luk_22:44 The Agony of Christ
Luk_22:61 The Saviour’s Look
Luk_23:11 Setting Jesus at Nought
Luk_23:21 Spiritual Impulses
Luk_23:21 True and False Enthusiasm
Luk_23:26 Bearing the Cross after Jesus
Luk_23:28 True Patriotism
Luk_23:33 The Green Hill far Away
Luk_23:34 The First of the Seven Words
Luk_23:34 Ignorance and Cruelty
Luk_23:34 The Unknown Sins of our Social System
Luk_23:34 Trustful, Persevering, Selfless
Luk_23:34 The Scope of the Saviour’s Prayer
Luk_23:34 Typical Words of Christ
Luk_23:42 Recognised at Last
Luk_23:43 The Second Word from the Cross
Luk_23:43 First-fruits of the Passion
Luk_23:43 The Royalty of Goodness
Luk_23:43 Divided by the Cross
Luk_23:43 The Word of Grace
Luk_23:43 The Sinner Restored
Luk_23:46 The Last Word from the Cross
Luk_23:46 The Upward Look
Luk_23:46 The Death of Christ
Luk_23:46 The Look Forward
Luk_23:46 Peace and Security
Luk_23:46 Obedient unto Death
Luk_23:46 Father!
Luk_23:48 Lessons from the Cross
Luk_23:56 Sabbath Rest
Luk_24:5-6 The Appeal of Easter
Luk_24:11 The Apostles at Home
Luk_24:15-16 The Walk to Emmaus
Luk_24:29 Abide with Us
Luk_24:32 Burning Hearts
Luk_24:32 Unrecognised Blessings
Luk_24:34 Risen Indeed
Luk_24:39 The Hands of the Risen Christ
Luk_24:46-47 The Gospel of the Cross
Luk_24:47 At Jerusalem
Luk_24:49 Spiritual Power
Luk_24:49 The Greatness of Power
Luk_24:49 Spiritual Investiture
Luk_24:49 The Mission of the Holy Ghost
Luk_24:50-51 The Ascension
Luk_24:50-51 Gifts and Graces of the Ascended Lord
Luk_24:52 To Jerusalem with Great Joy