Sermons by David Lucas (Page 2)

Many of us imagine peace like a carefully kept Zen garden. The sand is raked into place. The stones are set where we want them. Every weed is pulled the moment it appears. And if the wind keeps disturbing the …

John 16:27 NASB  for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came forth from the Father. When Jesus spoke these words, He knew that every one of his disciples was hours from …

There is a question that sits quietly beneath nearly every conversation about the Christian life, and it is this:  How do you know what God has said to you?  Not in a theoretical, academic sense, but in the pressing, practical, …

Jesus says His departure is their advantage, yet the disciples hear it as loss. That tension exposes a problem deeper than grief. We often judge Christ’s wisdom by immediate pain, and when sorrow fills the heart, we cling to what …

A warning is only useful before the thing it warns about arrives. A tornado siren after the roof is gone is not a warning but a report. On the night Jesus is arrested, He gives His disciples a specific warning. …