by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Dec 6, 2024 | Pondering With Prompts
Luke 2:41-52 Lead in: Jesus’ parents find their twelve year old son conversing with the scholars of the law in the temple, who are quite taken with the boy and the answers he was giving them. His parents, however, weren’t quite as impressed. For three days they’ve...
by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Dec 6, 2024 | Pondering With Prompts
Luke 1:39-45 Lead in: Young Mary, expectant with child, decides to visit Elizabeth who also is with child. Elizabeth lives in the hill country of Judea. It’s a dangerous trek, about one hundred miles over rough terrain. Not knowing who she might encounter on the way,...
by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Dec 6, 2024 | Pondering With Prompts
Luke 3:10-18 Lead in: People from various walks of life came to John the Baptist, common folks, corporate professionals and military personal. After hearing him preach a baptism of repentance, they all asked the same question, “What should we do?” As we walk with...
by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Dec 6, 2024 | Pondering With Prompts
Luke 3:1-6 Lead in: In the opening line of Luke 3:1, we hear the names of no less than eight different kings and governors along with exact dates that they ruled including the regions they ruled.These seemingly random facts seem extraneous to the core message of the...
by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Dec 6, 2024 | Pondering With Prompts
Luke 21:25-28, 34-36 Lead in: In Luke 21, Jesus talks of the signs that speak of the hard times to come. Is he predicting the end of the world? There has always been great curiosity about the second coming of Christ. When is it and how will it happen? These are two...
by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Dec 6, 2024 | Pondering With Prompts
John 18:33b-37 Lead in: Pilate was suspicious of this Jesus who he’d heard so much about. Like Pilate, we can be suspicious of people based on what we’ve heard about them.Prompt : Reflect on a time when you met someone who you were suspicious of based on what you had...
