by Frank Retief | Mar 8, 2014 | Thought for the day
Luke 8 v 39. “Return home and tell how much God has done for you”. Luke spends four verses (vs 34-39) describing the response of the townspeople to Christ’s deliverance of the poor demoniac. You would have thought that they would have been amazed and delighted. We...
by Frank Retief | Mar 7, 2014 | Thought for the day
Luke 8 v 38. “…..When they came to Jesus, they found this man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus’ feet, dressed and in his right mind.” Once again Luke recounts an event that places Jesus in confrontation with evil spirits. These stories may seem...
by Frank Retief | Mar 6, 2014 | Thought for the day
Luke 8 v 24. “the disciples went and woke him, saying “Master, Master, we’re going to drown.” This story is well known to most bible readers. It is full of drama. A storm suddenly descends on the lake where Jesus and his disciples are in a boat. Jesus is asleep and...
by Frank Retief | Mar 5, 2014 | Thought for the day
Luke 8 v 21. He replied: “My mother and brothers are those who hear God’s Word and put it into practice”. Jesus is making a similar point here as the word about the lamp that has light and cannot be hidden. An occasion occurs when Jesus’ family comes to seek for him...
by Frank Retief | Mar 4, 2014 | Thought for the day
Luke 8 v 18. “Therefore consider carefully how you listen. Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken from him.” To “consider carefully how we listen” means that we have to evaluate what we hear and do something...
by Frank Retief | Mar 3, 2014 | Thought for the day
Luke 8 v 8. “Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up and yielded a crop, a hundred times more than was sown.” This is the response to the Gospel that counts. People with honest and good hearts, hear the Word, embrace it, believe it, hold it fast, and they bring...
