1. Jesus sets His face toward Jerusalem as the disciples struggle with greatness.
  2. The children of Israel are on the fast-track to bondage. What is so tempting about foreign gods and why do the people turn to them so quickly?
  3. Jesus foretells His death more than once and the disciples don’t understand it. Jesus says all who follow Him must take up their cross.
  4. Give me oil for my lamp, keep it burning . . . The parable of the ten virgins shows us what it is to be prepared in Christ and unprepared in ourselves. #iwishwe’dallbeenready
  5. Healings, mission trips and how to feed thousands with five loaves of bread and two fish.
  6. Luke 16, the “Parable” of the Rich Man and Lazarus Moses and the Prophets speak of Christ. If you don’t believe those words, why would you believe the actual resurrection?
  7. Lamps under beds, a raging storm and a demon-possessed man living in a graveyard.
  8. A Pharisee invites Jesus over for dinner and a prostitute shows up. How far does the forgiveness of Jesus go?
  9. Jesus is enemies with death and John the Baptist is the greatest man who ever lived... except for the least in God's kingdom.
  10. Judge not, build your house on the rock and bear some good fruit.
  11. Jesus gives a long list of ethical demands for His disciples that seem contrary to everything that comes naturally.
  12. Sabbath breaking, hand healing, legalism, and the Beatitudes.