Bible study course
A chapter-by-chapter academic study of Luke's carefully ordered Gospel, following the Spirit-anointed Jesus who brings good news, welcomes outsiders, confronts distorted power, seeks the lost, and journeys through the cross to resurrection.
Meet Luke as a careful historian and theologian whose Gospel moves from promise and Spirit-filled joy to Jerusalem, the cross, resurrection, and an ongoing global mission.
Two promised births, two faithful women, prophetic songs, and a God who remembers covenant mercy.
Jesus is born under Roman imperial decree, announced to shepherds, welcomed by prophetic elders, and found in his Father's house.
John calls for fruit-bearing repentance, confronts privilege, and Jesus is baptized and revealed as the beloved Son and Son of Adam.
Jesus resists distorted power in the wilderness, proclaims Isaiah's good news in Nazareth, survives rejection, and ministers with liberating authority.
Jesus calls fishermen and a tax collector, touches the excluded, forgives sins, and creates tables where grace becomes visible.
Jesus places mercy at the heart of Sabbath, chooses the Twelve after prayer, and teaches a life of loving enemies, generosity, and obedience.
A Gentile officer trusts from a distance, a grieving widow receives her son, John the Baptist receives reassurance, and a weeping woman lavishes costly love.
Women support Jesus' ministry, the word meets different soils, and Jesus brings calm and restoration to storms, demonic oppression, illness, and death.
The Twelve are sent, five thousand are fed, Peter confesses the Christ, glory is revealed on the mountain, and Jesus turns toward Jerusalem.
Jesus sends a wide circle of disciples, makes a Samaritan the model neighbor, and receives both hospitable service and attentive listening.
Jesus teaches persistent prayer, confronts accusations of demonic power, and exposes religious practice that looks clean while neglecting justice and love.
Jesus warns against hypocrisy, greed, anxious accumulation, and abusive stewardship while teaching fearless trust and readiness.
Jesus rejects easy blame after tragedy, heals a bent woman on the Sabbath, describes the mustard seed, and laments over Jerusalem.
At a Sabbath meal Jesus heals, dismantles status games, widens the guest list, and calls would-be disciples to count the cost.
A shepherd searches, a woman sweeps, and a father runs while two very different lost sons reveal the joy and scandal of grace.
Jesus tells challenging stories about money, faithfulness, divided loyalty, and a rich man who learns too late to see the poor man at his gate.
Jesus teaches about protecting others from stumbling, repeated forgiveness, faith like a mustard seed, thankful outsider faith, and the present yet coming kingdom.
A widow refuses to give up, a tax collector cries for mercy, children are embraced, a rich ruler walks away grieved, and a blind beggar receives sight.
Zacchaeus makes restitution, servants are entrusted with responsibility, and Jesus enters Jerusalem weeping before cleansing the temple.
Jesus faces challenges about authority, exposes violent stewardship, answers traps about Caesar and resurrection, and warns against religious status.
A poor widow gives amid an exploited temple, and Jesus teaches endurance, witness, and watchfulness without setting dates.
At Passover Jesus institutes the new covenant, redefines greatness as service, agonizes in prayer on the Mount of Olives, and is betrayed into religious hands.
Jesus is examined by Pilate and Herod, speaks forgiveness and paradise from the cross, dies as the righteous Son, and is laid in Joseph's tomb.
The empty tomb startles the disciples, Jesus walks with two travelers to Emmaus, opens the Scriptures, appears bodily, and ascends with a blessing.