Luke's Writings.

     Greetings to you in the name of Jesus.  This last weekend was a pretty good weekend.  Pastor Ludwig was gone, so I had all three services by myself.  They all went really well though.  I spent all last week dreading preaching on the Gospel lesson of Mark 10.  How is a young, new pastor suppose to preach to a bunch of wealthy people when Jesus says it will be easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for the rich to enter the kingdom of God??  However, I came up with a sermon that I thought worked pretty well.  And it must have been alright, because I got a lot more compliments and comments afterwards than I normally get.  The Lord works through me, even when I doubt myself.  The sermon should be posted on the church's website for you to hear.  

    I was reading my devotion today, and then there was a special edition on Luke.  There was a line in there that I never realized before.  With his Gospel and the book of Acts, Luke's writings make up over one third of the New Testament.  Did you ever know that?  ONE-THIRD!  He wasn't even a disciple, rather just a physician with a hobby in recording history and took a special interest in Christ and His apostles.  I wonder if Luke ever knew how huge and important his writings would be.  If he ever doubted his works as being good enough or really that important.  But just as God can work through little old me, the same God inspired Luke's writings to be a major portion of His Word that is still alive and active today as we read it and learn about Jesus's birth, ministry, death, and resurrection; and then His ascension and the apostles travels and ministry as the Christian church was born and grew.  Our God is good!