SERMON SNAPSHOT: Sunday, June 29, 2025

Dear Friends in Jesus –

Our text this coming Sunday occurs as the Gospel writer Luke turns a narrative corner. Jesus “sets his face toward Jerusalem”.

Chapter nine is a pivotal chapter in Luke’s story. It is, in a variety of ways, the hinge of the story as Luke tells it. It provides the pivot point between Jesus’ mission of teaching and preaching in Galilee and his inexorable journey to Jerusalem and the cross.

As he strides towards Jerusalem he encounters three people who tell Jesus, “I will follow you but.…”

If we would follow Jesus we must be prepared for some of our primary loyalties to become secondary. If we would follow Jesus we must also be prepared for conflict of good with good and be prepared to have some of our cherished loyalties reconsidered and perhaps rearranged.

It is a fearful thing to find ourselves in the hands of the living God.

In great anticipation –