Saturday March 2, 2013Pastor Suzanne Andrews will continue her Lenten series from the Book of Luke as she follows Jesus on His walk to the cross. Sunday’s sermon will be "Jesus Heals the Woman on the ...

It is a principle in Jewish law that means saving a life takes precedence over most other Jewish laws, including observance of the sabbath. The particular Pharisees around Jesus go silent when he asks ...

Two millennia ago, religious and secular authorities colluded to kill a man who preached love and practiced what he preached.

In the Gospel, Jesus and his disciples attract attention because they are picking grain to eat; in the process, they’re breaking the rules for observing the sabbath.

And whether or not people thought some illnesses were the result of demons, the point is that Jesus heals people from serious and sometimes lifelong afflictions—and does so immediately.

So the final, eternal, blood-bought Sabbath rest has begun. We enter into it when we cease from our works and trust Christ and His finished work for us on the cross.

It’s the fourth Sunday of Lent and today’s reading is the healing of our Lord Jesus Christ of the man born blind. If we printed the entire gospel, we’d run out of space. But this passage ...

In what became an open conflict over Sabbath observance, especially whether it was lawful to heal the sick, in today’s gospel Jesus defends his disciples for clearing a path through a field and ...

Receiving only silent stares, Jesus heals the man and then tells the Pharisees: "Who among you, if your son or ox falls into a cistern, would not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?" ...

Jesus thus did not make a new law; he interpreted the scriptures in a new way that was consistent with the scriptures: good works on the Sabbath is okay.