In Context is a weekly radio show broadcast each Monday evening and now brought to you as a podcast.
My name is Patrick, I’m one of life’s strugglers but I’ve come to find strength and hope in the person and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. He’s my teacher, and I’m learning to follow him throughout life’s journey.
I’ve been reading and Learning and studying and thinking about the Scriptures for more years than I can remember. And I've been greatly blessed with opportunities to teach others over the years, in all sorts of places and in all different kinds of circumstances.
This show has evolved over the months, and will likely continue to do so as I try to work out what works best – so I welcome all feedback from my listener! I've tried to see things in their historical and literary contexts, along with considering something of the missional matters to be drawn out of the text.
So come with me on a journey through the Scriptures, beginning with the writings of Luke.
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In Context is a weekly radio show broadcast each Monday evening and now brought to you as a podcast.
My name is Patrick, I’m one of life’s strugglers but I’ve come to find strength and hope in the person and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. He’s my teacher, and I’m learning to follow him throughout life’s journey.
I’ve been reading and Learning and studying and thinking about the Scriptures for more years than I can remember. And I've been greatly blessed with opportunities to teach others over the years, in all sorts of places and in all different kinds of circumstances.
This show has evolved over the months, and will likely continue to do so as I try to work out what works best – so I welcome all feedback from my listener! I've tried to see things in their historical and literary contexts, along with considering something of the missional matters to be drawn out of the text.
So come with me on a journey through the Scriptures, beginning with the writings of Luke.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Luke 4:14–20. We have returned to Galilee, in the power of the Spirit, and a report about Jesus goes out through all the surrounding country. He teaches in their synagogues, and is glorified by all. Records of Jesus teaching are interspersed with records of miraculous activity, but the emphasis seems to be upon the teaching, and it is for this that Jesus was primarily known.
Then we find ourselves at Nazareth which was, for all intents and purposes, an insignificant town – but this was where Jesus lived most of his life, and it was here that he would have gone to the synagogue each Sabbath day.
In the synagogue we hear the usual prayers before Jesus stood up to read from the scroll of the prophet Isaiah. He read what was essentially a statement of his mission, as foretold by the prophets, but was now being fulfilled with his coming as Messiah – the anointed One of God.
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