Expositions of Holy Scripture: Luke

About this book

One volume of Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture, gathering his expository sermons on the Gospel of Luke. MacLaren, the Manchester preacher famed for the clarity and freshness of his pulpit work, takes passage after passage and opens its meaning with careful structure and vivid application. These sermons reward slow reading, whether for study, preaching preparation, or private devotion.

Contents

1. Elijah Come Again
2. True Greatness
3. The Magnificat
4. Zacharias’s Hymn
5. The Dayspring from on High
6. Shepherds and Angels
7. Was, Is, Is to Come
8. Simeon’s Swan-song
9. The Boy in the Temple
10. John the Preacher of Repentance
11. John’s Witness to Jesus, and God’s
12. The Temptation 🔒
13. Preaching at Nazareth 🔒
14. A Sabbath in Capernaum 🔒
15. Instructions for Fishermen 🔒
16. Fear and Faith 🔒
17. Blasphemer, or—Who? 🔒
18. Laws of the Kingdom 🔒
19. Three Condensed Parables 🔒
20. Worthy—Not Worthy 🔒
21. Jesus at the Bier 🔒
22. John’s Doubts and Christ’s Praise 🔒
23. Greatness in the Kingdom 🔒
24. Thwarting God’s Purpose 🔒
25. A Gluttonous Man and a Winebibber 🔒
26. The Two Debtors 🔒
27. Love and Forgiveness 🔒
28. Go into Peace 🔒
29. The Ministry of Women 🔒
30. One Seed and Diverse Soils 🔒
31. Seed among Thorns 🔒
32. A Miracle within a Miracle 🔒
33. Christ to Jairus 🔒
34. Bread from Heaven 🔒
35. ‘The Lord that Healeth Thee’ 🔒
36. Christ’s Cross and Ours 🔒
37. Prayer and Transfiguration 🔒
38. ‘In the Holy Mount’ 🔒
39. Christ Hastening to the Cross 🔒
40. Christ’s Messengers: Their Equipment and Work 🔒
41. Neighbours Far Off 🔒
42. How to Pray 🔒
43. The Praying Christ 🔒
44. The Rich Fool 🔒
45. Anxious about Earth, or Earnest about the Kingdom 🔒
46. Stillness in Storm 🔒
47. The Equipment of the Servants 🔒
48. The Servant-Lord 🔒
49. Servants and Stewards Here and Hereafter 🔒
50. Fire on Earth 🔒
51. True Sabbath Observance 🔒
52. The Strait Gate 🔒
53. Christ’s Message to Herod 🔒
54. The Lessons of a Feast 🔒
55. Excuses not Reasons 🔒
56. The Rash Builder 🔒
57. ‘That Which Was Lost’ 🔒
58. The Prodigal and His Father 🔒
59. Gifts to the Prodigal 🔒
60. The Follies of the Wise 🔒
61. Two Kinds of Riches 🔒
62. The Gains of the Faithful Steward 🔒
63. Dives and Lazarus 🔒
64. Memory in Another World 🔒
65. God’s Slaves 🔒
66. Where Are the Nine? 🔒
67. Three Kinds of Praying 🔒
68. Entering the Kingdom 🔒
69. The Man that Stopped Jesus 🔒
70. Melted by Kindness 🔒
71. The Trading Servants 🔒
72. The Rewards of the Trading Servants 🔒
73. A New Kind of King 🔒
74. Tenants Who Wanted to Be Owners 🔒
75. Whose Image and Superscription 🔒
76. When Shall These Things Be? 🔒
77. The Lord’s Supper 🔒
78. Parting Promises and Warnings 🔒
79. Christ’s Ideal of a Monarch 🔒
80. The Lonely Christ 🔒
81. A Great Fall and a Great Recovery 🔒
82. Gethsemane 🔒
83. The Cross, the Victory and Defeat of Darkness 🔒
84. In the High Priest’s Palace 🔒
85. Christ’ Look 🔒
86. ‘The Rulers Take Counsel Together’ 🔒
87. A Soul’s Tragedy 🔒
88. Jesus and Pilate 🔒
89. Words from the Cross 🔒
90. The Dying Thief 🔒
91. The First Easter Sunrise 🔒
92. The Living Dead 🔒
93. The Risen Lord’s Self-revelation to Wavering Disciples 🔒
94. Detaining Christ 🔒
95. The Meal at Emmaus 🔒
96. Peter Alone with Jesus 🔒
97. The Triumphant End 🔒
98. Christ’s Witnesses 🔒
99. The Ascension 🔒