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Talkin’ God with Uncle Luke Acts 2:14ff The work of the Holy Spirit is made plain and simple when Uncle Peter gives a big Bible talk. The work of the Holy Spirit is to make dumb people smart to what God is doing in this world by bringing you to Jesus, the Word of God. When people respond to Jesus, they gather around the apostles teaching, fellowship, break bread and pray together. That is church,...

Talkin’ God with Uncle Luke Acts 2:1-15 God’s hillbilly redneck apostolic band of brothers and sisters get hit with the Holy Spirit and all hell breaks loose because the magnificent acts of God are being heard by people gathered in Jerusalem from all nations. God’s fingerprints are all over reversing the effects of the judgement of God from Genesis 11, when God dispersed people from Babel with dif...

Talkin’ God with Uncle Luke Acts 1 Uncle Luke is still telling the story of Jesus Christ, but now the Holy Spirit that Jesus and the Father promised will take over God’s story as Jesus’ new 12 get ready for action. They are now under God’s Witness Protection Program, a flicker of hope that will turn into a roaring flame.

Talkin’ God with Uncle Luke Luke 24:1-49 As Jesus said after he was beaten up, “Don’t cry for me…”, now we know why. Up from the grave his arose to playfully make his appearance to the women, households, and close friends. There could be no higher climax to a story than this, and it goes viral. God does not need science or video, just his faithful witnesses, the Scriptures and his friends. Take th...

Talkin’ God with Uncle Luke Luke 23:34-56 Jesus opens the road to paradise. Do we get it? He gets us, but do we get him? The people who get Jesus are not the usual suspects, but those who do get Jesus see his innocence and his absolute authority. The death of Jesus tears the curtain in the temple, and the kingdom of God, paradise is open for business. Jesus is the temple and the road to paradise.

Talkin’ God with Uncle Luke Luke 23:26-34 Jesus has been beat up, mocked and now he will be crucified. Surprisingly, Jesus says don’t cry for him, cry for you and your kids. Oh the humanity! Father forgive us for we know not what we do. Best words ever.

Talkin’ God with Uncle Luke Luke 23:1-25 Jesus gets surrounded by our necessary evil and the predictability of stupidity, man made government, both Israel’s and Rome’s. The pattern of man made government is the story, and in the middle is Jesus Christ, God’s government of the future, who rules at the family level. The Divine Right of Kings is not God’s thing, the Divine Right of Jesus is God’s thi...

Talkin’ God with Uncle Luke Luke 22:35-62 The story is surrounded by failure. The disciples fail, Judas fails, Peter fails and let’s be honest - it looks like Jesus fails, as he is taken into custody. But Jesus has his eye on a different enemy, evil. The Biblical Epic spans the beginning of humanity until God says that’s enough. God takes on our failures to His success. Isaiah 51-53 was written 70...

Talkin’ God with Uncle Luke Luke 22:1-34 The plot to kill Jesus surrounds Jesus’ plan to redefine Passover just like God always does. God uses man’s evils for God’s good. Man’s time to kill is God’s time to heal.

Talkin’ God with Uncle Luke Luke 21:25-38 It’s the end of the world as we know it! And I feel fine? Why? From God’s point of view, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ has inaugurated the last days. But that doesn’t mean it’s over, and that’s why we feel fine. Because of God’s great love we are not consumed. Judgment is God’s work alone, but it is not the work he loves. The work he loves is...

Talkin’ God with Uncle Luke Luke 21:5-24 Jesus is a Jew. So when he says the temple will be destroyed, it is no small thing. Israel’s land and temple had been the center of God’s story to Jesus day. Why is he so calm about its destruction? Because he has something bigger and better. Wars and natural disasters will not destroy God’s new temple that God is making for Jew and Gentile to join together...

Talkin’ God with Uncle Luke Luke 20:45-21:4 Jesus has little time for the fittest of our natural world, but he has all the time in the world for the down and outs like widows. Jesus has a moral revolution in mind, confounding the Nietzsches of the world and giving hope to the botched, as the world might call them, the down and outs.

Talkin’ God with Uncle Luke Luke 20:27-44 Today is Sad U See. The Sadducees come on the scene like modern day funsuckers with their deconstructionist clever schemes to tear down God’s story. At the heart of Jesus is the resurrection, which is in our hearts too, we want to live for ever. Only Jesus takes the issue seriously - so we would do well to listen up, take heart, and get on board with Jesus...

Talkin’ God with Uncle Luke Luke 20:19-26 Jesus turns the table on religious leaders pumping sunshine up Jesus so they can stab him in the back. The scene leaves them and us asking whether we really know the difference between what is man made and what is God made.

Talkin’ God with Uncle Luke Luke 20:9-19 Why does everyone rage at the Lord and His anointed? Jesus gives us the heavenly perspective of our world and what God is doing in it. Basically, we are bad tenants, squatters who somehow think we can pull one over on the Owner if we dismiss His servants and even His Son. But even the death of The Son won’t keep God from being patient and kind. Jesus remind...

Talking God with Uncle Luke Luke 19:45-20:8 Jesus enters the temple and turns the tables on everyone. Do you know God? Do you know the difference between what is from man and what is from God? What is your authority? God has made a story thru History so that everyone can be forgiven by Him, know Him, and pray to Him. Are we in sync with God? Jesus is. It’s time to follow him.

Talking God with Uncle Luke Luke 19:28-44 The King is here, but his weeping like a prophet over Jerusalem ahead. The audience either wants Jesus to make war or just go away and die. Jesus will make war, but his blood will be the only blood shed because He is here to make peace. To make peace His war will be against our evils so that the knowledge of the glory of God will fill the earth.

Talkin God with Uncle Luke 19:11-27 Jesus does his part to pump the brakes on any notion that he going to Jerusalem to slaughter the enemies of God. Instead, he will die and rise in three days after being beaten and spit upon. This is all part of God’s plan to give the Kingdom of God to Jesus, the Son of God. But don’t be fooled into thinking that he won’t be back with his Kingdom and all that mea...

Talkin’ God with Uncle Luke Luke 18:31-33 Free will and God’s Sovereignty are the backdrop to Jesus telling the disciples he is heading to Jerusalem to die. This is the climax of God’s story to tell from the beginning. Why God will die is the answer to our problem- death.

Talkin’ God with Uncle Luke Luke 18:18-30 What must we do to inherit eternal life? The answer is “Who is good?”, according to Jesus (God).

Talkin’ God with Uncle Luke Luke 18:15-17 Jesus loves the little children of the world, but the world has been a lot slower on the uptake.

Talkin’ God with Uncle Luke Luke 18:9-14 Two guys walk into a temple to pray. Jesus drops a parable that we can all relate to. Can we hear what he’s saying? As usual Jesus calls BS on how humans always go down the wrong road, trusting in their own righteousness and treating others with contempt. Who God justifies always surprises us.

Talkin’ God with Uncle Luke Luke 18:1-8 Jesus uses a parable about justice to explain prayer and calm us down. Justice is a big deal and it drives us crazy. Funny, people who are the most concerned about justice seem to lack mercy. When the scales of justice are tilted it’s time to pray, be calm, do justice, have mercy and walk humbly with our God. Social Justice Warrioring can not be done without...

Talkin’ God with Uncle Luke Luke 17:11ff One out of ten lepers, know who Jesus is and act accordingly. He is the King of the Kingdom of God. The Pharisees and Jesus’ disciples are stuck on the wrong questions. Jesus is the end, the Kingdom of God is the end - it’s not about when and where but who. Jesus walks the audience thru how to understand the Kingdom of God from the word of God in Noah, Lot...

Talkin’ God with Uncle Luke Episode 47 Luke 16:1-17:10 Nothing haunts us more than being wrong. That’s why God has no need for force, he has the power of being right. That haunts us, and it’s a good thing. God haunts us with being right, and we can see our wrongs all around. Jesus throws down some haunting statements and stories about our reality with God in God’s world, so that we would come to o...