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What’s the Deal with the Genealogies? (Luke 3:23-38)

February 13, 2024 by Kenneth Yates in Blog - Adam, Gentiles, Matt 1:1-17, Theophilus

Both Matthew (Matt 1:1-17) and Luke (3:23-38) include the genealogy of Christ in their Gospels. I’m pretty sure that most readers read over all those names fairly quickly, or even skip those verses all together. These verses have to win the prize for each book’s most boring section. We can’t even pronounce 80% of the

The Christmas Manger (Luke 2:7)

December 18, 2023 by Kenneth Yates in Blog - Caesar, Humility, Rom 12:3, Theophilus

We are all familiar with the fact that Jesus was placed in a manger after He was born. I think most of us think of a small wooden structure in which owners of animals would place hay for those animals to eat. Church tradition tells us that Jesus was born in a cave and that

Luke’s Method (Luke 1:1-4)

October 5, 2020 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - apologetics, history, Luke, Theophilus

In the last blog, we explored Luke’s purpose in writing his Gospel, and I suggested it was quasi-apologetic—meant to stabilize or to reinforce faith in Christ. Now we can ask a second question: what was Luke’s method in writing his Gospel? The prologue gives us five clues. Inasmuch as many have taken in hand to