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Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

Richard Patt

We wish the story here would have ended another way. Yes, it was the sabbath (always meant to be a beautiful day for God's people!). And even on the sabbath people become sick or continue to be sick. Jesus notices a woman, all hunched over, obviously one who had been ill for a long time. He is a merciful Lord, so he takes the initiative to call her over and lay his hands on her. In these gracious ...

2. Sometimes You Gotta Bend the Rules!

Luke 13:10-17

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

Exegetical Aim: Rules and laws are good. They tell us how we should live our lives, but sometimes there is a greater good to be served by breaking the rules. Props: Some signs with rules on them. Get some commercially-made signs or just draw them yourself. The contents of the signs are explained below. Lesson: Good morning! (response) I have some signs with me this morning and I want you to read t...

3. Stand Up Straight

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

One weekend in one of our contemporary services, we invited the worshippers in a time of prayer to say out loud what they were grateful for. There happened to be two young mothers sitting on the front row. One said, "For my healthy children." The other mother said, "For God's provision." I happened to know that that second mother has a child who has suffered recurring seizures throughout his young...

4. Luke 13:10-17

Luke 13:10-17

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

Playground etiquette is strict. The “top kid” – whoever they may be gets to make the rules. No matter how strange and convoluted the rules are, everyone has to abide by them. The alpha dog on the playground could declare the ball had to be bounced twice before hitting it, unless your last name ended with a vowel, in which case you had to bounce the ball three times before hitting it back . . . a...

5. Luke 13:10-17

Luke 13:10-17

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

In the “back-to-school” shopping ritual, one of the most important, and expensive, family purchases is a new backpack. Does it seem to you too that every year the load our kids schlep between school and home on their backs becomes heavier and heavier? In fact, there is real concern among medical professionals about the long-term effects of this “weightiness” on the nerves, bones and muscles of you...

6. “Unless You Repent . . .”

Luke 13:10-17, Luke 13:1-9

Teach the Text

R.T. France

Big Idea: God requires repentance before it is too late, but people are more concerned with keeping the rules than with God’s agenda. Understanding the Text These are two separate pericopes, brought together here simply for the convenience of this commentary. First, repentance has been at the heart of the message of both John (3:3, 8) and Jesus (5:32), and Jesus has rebuked his contemporaries f...

7. A Crippled Woman Healed on the Sabbath

Luke 13:10-17

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

In the next section (13:10–17) we see the saving power of Jesus at work. Still, the synagogue ruler maintains that healing on the Sabbath is wrong. God made weekdays for work, never intending that work be done on the Sabbath (13:14). Using a typical rabbinic method of arguing from the lesser to the greater, Jesus accuses those who hold this position of hypocrisy. If one cares for the physical need...

8. A Crippled Woman Healed on the Sabbath

Luke 13:10-17

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

The healing of the woman with a crooked spine occurs only in Luke. Like earlier episodes in Luke (6:1–5, 6–11), the controversy centers around Jesus, who allegedly violates the law by healing someone on the Sabbath. The episode exposes yet another example of Pharisaic hypocrisy, while it also furthers the general theme of the growing hostility that eventually will result in Jesus’ arrest and cruci...

9. Freeing Those in Bondage

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

George Reed

The story of Jesus healing the woman with a crippling spirit while he was teaching in the synagogue one sabbath is about a lot more than what is appropriate to do on the sabbath. It is a window into the mindset of Jesus about ministry. The first thing we notice in this story is that Jesus is teaching in the synagogue on the sabbath. This sounds like such a traditional means of worship and teachin...

10. Cure for an Aching Back

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

One Sabbath day, Jesus was teaching in a synagogue. A woman was there who was severely disabled. Her body was all bent over so bent over that her head was nearly even with her waist. Dr. Luke tells us she could not straighten up at all. That strikes me as an unbelievably sad situation. Forgetting the pain and the inconvenience of not being able to straighten one’s body, imagine what that would do ...

11. On Taking Candy from a Stranger

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

A man tells the story of leaving a grocery store when he was approached by two small boys selling candy bars for their school band. The man told the boys, “I’ll buy a chocolate bar from you on one condition. You eat it for me.” The boys agreed. The man bought the chocolate bar and promptly handed it back to one little boy so that he could eat it. The boy shook his head and said, “I can’t.” “Why ...

12. Busybodies

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

People who knew legendary jazz musician Cab Calloway as a man of dignity and humor. One night at Birdland, the legendary jazz bar, Cab was introducing a promising young saxophone player. As the sax player finished his set, a self-appointed jazz critic came over to him and said, in front of Cab, "You aren't that good, man. All you can do is play like Charlie Parker." Cab took the young man's sax an...

13. Straight Backs And Rekindled Dreams

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

What's it like to live without hope? What's it like to finally decide that your dreams are beyond your abilities and to resign yourself to living without any prospect that things will get better? The closest thing I could find to a picture of a person totally without hope comes from a book by Dr. David Jeremiah titled The Power of Encouragement. Dr. Jeremiah tells about an old Alfred Hitchcock sh...

14. You Can't Please Everybody

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

Have you ever noticed that no matter what you do, you can't please everybody? Somebody, somewhere is going to criticize your best efforts. Former president John F. Kennedy once told about a legendary baseball player who always played flawlessly. He consistently hit and was never thrown out at first base. When on base he never failed to score. He never dropped a ball and threw with unerring accura...

15. Healing On The Sabbath

Luke 13:10-17

Bulletin Aid

H. Burnham Kirkland

Call To Worship Leader: Lord, because you are righteous, help me. People: Be my secure shelter and a strong fortress to protect me. Leader: My God, rescue me from wicked people. People: From the power of cruel and evil people, deliver me. Leader: Come, let us worship and rejoice at all the wonderful things that Christ has done and is doing still. Collect Ever-loving Father, on this day set aside ...

16. Love is Greater Than the Law

Luke 13:10-17

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

Call to Worship Leader: Let all who would know the freedom of God's grace come together! People: Must we know all the Laws and must we be perfect in our hearts? Leader: Jesus fulfilled the Law, and in Christ we are perfected before God. People: What if our clothes are not fine or our bodies imperfect and worn? Leader: Sing praises unto the Lord! In the cross, God's love came to us all! All: Blesse...

17. Proper 16

Hebrews 12:14-29, Jeremiah 1:1-19, Psalm 71:1-24, Luke 13:10-17

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

READINGS Psalter—Psalm 71:1-6 First Lesson—The book of the prophet Jeremiah begins with an account of his call to the prophetic office despite feelings of inadequacy. Jeremiah 1:4-10 Second Lesson—The gospel of Jesus Christ has brought a new approach to God, but reverence is still appropriate. Hebrews 12:18-29 Gospel—Jesus flies in the face of tradition to perform a miraculous healing on the Sabba...

18. Proper 16

Hebrews 12:14-29, Jeremiah 1:1-19, Luke 13:10-17

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

COMMENTARY Lesson 1: Jeremiah 1:4-10 The call of Jeremiah. Jeremiah's ministry covered 40 years, 626 to 586 B.C. He served at a time of international turmoil and the dissolution of his country, Judah, in 586 B.C. Assyria fell to the Babylonians and in due time the surrounding countries including Judah were conquered. Jeremiah received his call five years before the reforms of King Josiah of Judah...

19. Proper 16

Jeremiah 1:1-19, Psalm 71:1-24, Hebrews 12:14-29, Luke 13:10-17

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

CALL TO WORSHIP Come, everyone. Rejoice at all the wonderful things that Jesus has done and is doing still. Let us give thanks and offer to God an acceptable worship with reverence and awe. PRAYER OF CONFESSION Holy God, there are times when we would rather not call you parent because we would prefer to live the undisciplined life. We would rather go our own way and avoid the training you insist ...

20. Straight Backs And Rekindled Dreams

Luke 13:10-17

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: A lantern Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you have ever been to a doctor? We go to the doctor when we are sick, don't we? Or sometimes, we go to the doctor to get a shot to keep us from getting sick. I understand that in ancient China doctors were paid when their patients were kept well, not when they were sick. In fact, because they believed it was the doctor's job to prevent ...

21. What If the Disciples Had Email and One of the Disciples Was a Woman?

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

From: Priscilla@galilee.net To: Mom&Dad@jerusalem.org Dear Mom and Dad, I just wanted to write and let you know that I'm doing just fine. I know you don't approve of me traveling from place to place with this fellow, Jesus, and his companions, but I need you to know that things are going amazingly well. Before you get to worrying more than you already are, none of the "boys" as you called them,...

22. Love to Life

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

It is unexpected and agonizing. You reach over to pick up a package, bend down to tie your shoe, or put out your arms to scoop an “arms-up” child . . . and suddenly, something goes terribly wrong. You know it in an instant. A wrench. A tweak. A tear. A back muscle, or disk, or nerve…something has gone completely “off-line.” In the twitch of a muscle, but no twinkle of an eye, moving becomes misery...

23. The Bent-over Woman

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

As was his custom, Jesus went that Sabbath morning to the synagogue for worship. As he was preaching and teaching, he happened to glance toward the fringe of the crowd where he saw a very crippled woman. She was bent over and was unable to stand up straight. When he inquired, Jesus was told the woman had been that way for eighteen years. Can you imagine? For nearly two decades this woman spent ev...

24. Mulliganeers, All

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

Way back in cold old February, fourth grader Patrick Timoney came face-to-face with what “zero degrees” really mean. Not “zero degrees” Fahrenheit, but “zero degrees” of tolerance. It seems Patrick had taken some of his favorite Lego toys to school to show off to his buddies. Any parent of young children can tell you those little, tiny Lego guys are natural born killers. They hide in the couch t...

25. Repressive Religion

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

David E. Leininger

I wish it were not so, but it is. Religion can be horribly repressive sometimes. Indeed, our text certainly reflects it. The story opens with Jesus teaching in a synagogue where services were normally informal: primarily prayers, reading of scripture, comments, and offerings for the poor. Any man in attendance could read from scripture and then teach or preach if he were so inclined, and on this d...

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