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Pastor Mike Impact Ministries
A daily chat with Pastor Mike and other resources to encourage listeners to connect with the Word of God and grow in their faith.
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Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 5:12-16 - The Touch of Jesus
In Luke chapter 5:12, a man came to Jesus in a certain city and he was full of leprosy. He sees Jesus and he falls on his face and implores him, saying, “Lord…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 5:12-16 - "A Man Who Was Full of Leprosy Saw Jesus"
For several days now we've been looking at Luke chapter 5:1-11. In these verses Jesus preached to crowd, and they pressed upon him. He gets in the boat with…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 5:11 - They Forsook All and Followed Jesus
So when they had brought their boats to land, they forsook all and followed Him. Jesus is in the process of calling his disciples and training them to be…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 5:4-11 - "Do Not Be Afraid"
We are looking in Luke 5 where Jesus is in the process of calling His first group of disciples to follow Him. Jesus is in the boat with Peter and Andrew. James…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 5:4-11 - When Jesus is in the Boat
Saturday October 19 When Jesus is in the Boat Luke 5:4-114 When He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon, "Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 5:4-11 - "Nevertheless At Your Word I Will"
Luke 5:4-11 4 When He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon, "Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch." 5 But Simon answered and said to…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 5:4-11 - Experiencing Failure Before Success
Luke 5 begins with Jesus preaching to the multitude on the north shore of the Sea of Galilee near Capernaum. He has been healing the sick, giving sight to the…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 5:4-11 - Jesus Speaks to the Individual
Jesus has begun the three and a half years of His earthly ministry. He is healing the sick, giving sight to the blind, causing the lame to walk, feeding the…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 5:1-3 - Little Is Much When God Is In It
Luke 5:1-3 1 So it was, as the multitude pressed about Him to hear the word of God, that He stood by the Lake of Gennesaret, 2 and saw two boats standing by…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 5:1-3 - The Lord Needs You and Your Possessions
First let me say a word about our little grandson Luke. Many of you probably saw Kimberly’s post last evening about Luke having to go into surgery again for…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 5:1-3 - Multitudes Hungry for the Word
Before we start our study in Luke 5, we want to review the last part of Luke 4 to get the background to our chat today. Remember Jesus had begun His earthly…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 4:38-44 - Jesus Was Sent to Preach
Today we will finish our study in Luke 4 where Luke shared several things about the early ministry of Jesus. First Jesus was tempted by the devil in the…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 4:38-44 - Authority of Jesus Over Diseases
Jesus returned to His hometown of Nazareth and had been rejected. He didn’t throw in the towel and quit, but “He went down to Capernaum”. He went down to a…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 4:31-37 - Authority of Jesus Over Demons
Then they were all amazed and spoke among themselves, saying, "What a word this is! For with authority and power He commands the unclean spirits, and they come…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 4:31-37 - Jesus First Rejection
Jesus had just preached His first recorded message in the Gospel of Luke in the synagogue of His hometown of Nazareth. The message began with the people in…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 4:20-30 - They Wanted to See a Miracle
In this passage Jesus is preaching His first recorded message in the Gospel of Luke in His hometown of Nazareth in the synagogue on the first Sabbath that He…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 4:16-22 - Jesus Came to Set us Free
These verses in Luke 4 reveal to us what happened on the first visit Jesus made to His hometown of Nazareth since He began His ministry in the region of…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 4:14-17 - "And As His Custom Was..."
Today we want to take this chat and explain the importance of the synagogue in the days of Christ and the early church. First, what is a synagogue? The basic…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 4:13-16 - Jesus Goes Home to Nazareth
16 So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. For the past several days we have been talking about the temptation of Jesus by the devil in the…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 4:9-13 - Know Who You Are In Christ
Luke records three specific temptations that the Lord Jesus was faced with by the devil in the wilderness just before He begins His three and half years of…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 4:5-8 - Suffering Comes Before Glory
We are studying the temptation of Jesus by the devil in the wilderness just after beginning His public ministry. To encourage us as we face our temptations…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 4:1-4 - "That You May Be Able to Stand..."
The night before He was crucified Jesus went to the Garden of Gethsemane to pray with Peter, James, and John. Jesus instructed them to watch and pray with Him…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 4:1-4 - Our Resources for Temptations
I will never forget as a nineteen-year-old teenager struggling under the conviction of the Holy Spirit and making the excuse that why should I become a…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 4:1-4 - Temptation Prepares Us for Ministry
Today we are going to talk about how temptations prepare us for service and ministry. Jesus was prepared for His temptation in the wilderness. In chapter 3, He…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 4:1-4 - Prepared For Temptation
For the next several days we will be studying Luke 4 and the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness. As we approach this chapter, we need to remember that Luke…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 3:23-38 - God Loves Names
Luke 3:23-38 ends this exciting chapter with a list of names! I can remember as a brand-new Christian reading through my Bible for the first few times and…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 3:21-23 - "While He Prayed, The Heaven Was Opened"
I started my chat today thinking we would finish Luke 3, but as you will see I won’t get past verse 22. Several things have caught my attention in verses 21-22…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 3:19-23 - "Jesus Himself Began His Ministry"
You can imagine the excitement that must have been in the air in Israel during this time. God has been silent for four-hundred years after speaking to the…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 3:15-18 - "One Mightier Than I is Coming"
Jesus and His cousin John the Baptist came on the public scene at about the same time. John showed up first with a spectacular ministry of preaching down by…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 3:7-14 - "What Shall We Do?"
John the Baptist came preaching a message of judgement and repentance. It appears that there was a movement of the Spirit of God across the land of Israel and…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 3:7-9 - "Therefore Bear Fruits Worthy of Repentance"
Remember we are told in Luke 3:23 that Jesus begin His ministry when He was about thirty years of age. This means that John the Baptist, who was born six…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 3:1-6 - “The Voice of One Crying…”
Luke tells us that John is the fulfilment the “voice” found in Isaiah 40:3-5. It was there that Isaiah prophesied some seven-hundred years before the events in…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 3:1-6 - The Baptism of Repentance
Exactly what was the meaning of “baptism of repentance” and the importance of it? Though today the word baptism generally evokes thoughts of identifying with…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 3:1-6 - The Message of Repentance
After the birth of John the Baptist, in Luke 1:76-80, Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist, had prophesied about his son’s future with these words: “And…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 3:1-6 - "The Word of God Came"
Luke 3:1-6 1 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, his brother…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 2:41-52 - "My Father's Business"
47 And all who heard Him were astonished at His understanding and answers. 48 So when they saw Him, they were amazed; and His mother said to Him, "Son, why…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 2:39-47 - "The Boy Jesus"
42 And when He was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem according to the custom of the feast. 43 When they had finished the days, as they returned, the…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 2:39-42 - Jesus the Child
Luke is giving us a detailed description of the circumstances and people involved in the birth of Jesus that we do not find in the other Gospels. Luke first…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 2:36-38 - A Threefold Cord of Testimony
When we come to these verses today, Luke has already shared with us the story of the angels telling the shepherds about the birth of the Messiah. But after…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 2:33-35 - Simeon's Marvelous Message
In Luke 2:33-35, Simeon goes from being a worshiper and preacher who has just experienced the very first appearance of Jesus in the temple in Jerusalem as a…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 2:25-35 - God's Divine Appointments
The more I study and meditate on this particular passage of Scripture in Luke’s account of the “Christmas Story”, the more I am intrigued about the work of the…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 2:25-35 - Simeon's Salvation Song
Here in chapter 2, Luke introduces us to a man name Simeon with “there was a man in Jerusalem”. Scripture does not tell us much about this man. We don’t know…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 2:25-35 - Are Your Ready to Die?
I just realized as I started writing this blog that today is a day in history we will never forget. Twenty-three years ago, September 11, 2001, America was…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 2:21-24 - "According to the Law of Moses"
Now in verses 21-24, Luke shares with us what happened in the first forty days of our Lord’s humanity. Someone said, our Lord's first experience on this planet…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 2:14-20 - "As It Was Told Them"
Somebody told someone, who told someone, who told someone, who told you, that a Savior was born in Bethlehem two-thousand years ago! I couldn’t help but notice…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 2:14 - "And on Earth Peace, Goodwill..."
Luke tells us here about the first event that took place that night after the birth of the Lord Jesus in Bethlehem. First, an angel, in a burst of the light of…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 2:8-14 - "Glory to God in the Highest"
I really think we could continue to look at these verses in Luke 2:8-14 every day for several months and never exhaust the eternal golden nuggets of truth that…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 2:11 - "To You This Day"
Yesterday we talked about the wonderful truth about the Gospel that is found verse 10, where the angel said to the poor lonely shepherds living in the fields…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 2:8-14 - "Which Will Be To All People"
10 Then the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. 11 For several days we have…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 2:8-14 - "Good Tidings of Great Joy"
10 Then the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. I don’t know about you, but…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 2:8-14 - "Do Not Be Afraid"
10 Then the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. 11 For there is born to you…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 2:8-14 - The First Public Announcement
Luke 2:8-14 8 Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And behold, an angel of the…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 2:6-7 - No Room for Jesus Today
Luke gives more details and specifics about the actual birth of the Lord Jesus than any other of the Gospel writers. Most of our Christmas stories and songs…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 2:1-7 - "No Room in the Inn"
Mary and Joseph have traveled some eighty miles from Nazareth to Bethlehem to be registered for the Roman census. The journey took at least three days. They…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 2:1-5 - The Sovereign Hand of God
Luke chapter 2 has to be one of the most exciting, important, and special chapters in all the Bible! Luke has done his research, no doubt interviewing Mary…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 1:76-80 - Prepare the Way of the Lord
After Zacharias gives his praise and prophesy about the Jesus the Messiah in verses 67-75, he turns his attention to his newborn son, John. I can imagine the…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 1:74-80 - "That We Might Serve Him"
74 To grant us that we, Being delivered from the hand of our enemies, Might serve Him without fear, 75 In holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 1:74-80 - Redeemed, Delivered, and Saved to Serve
After Zacharias has his mouth open and his tongue loosed (v. 64), he immediately begins to praise God. And as the Holy Spirit fills him, he first speaks about…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 1:64-75 - A Message of Redemption and Deliverance
Luke chapter one ends with Zacharias, the priest and husband of Elizabeth, both praising the Lord and prophesying about the coming Messiah and also his son…
Pastor Mike Impact MinistriesLuke 1:57-75 - Divine Joy is Express with Praise
Again, we can’t forget that the theme of the Gospel of Luke is joy and rejoicing as we will see throughout the book. Everything changes when God shows up! The…