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Spiritual Practices of Jesus: Learning Simplicity, Humility, and Prayer with Luke’s Earliest Readers is unavailable, but you can change that!

Luke’s Gospel was written to transform. In its original context, readers would have seen a portrait of Jesus as an ideal teacher and king, able to shape his people through exemplary leadership. They would have come to the Gospel expecting to be changed for God’s purposes through the lifestyle and teaching of Christ. When today’s readers approach the text in the same way, they can be transformed...

our possessions.1 When we exercise this kind of practical love toward others, we imitate God’s own generosity (Lk 6:33).2 God gives like a generous merchant who, without care for personal profit, fills the measuring cup until it overflows (Lk 6:38).3 Any magnanimity we demonstrate is ultimately rooted in the nature of God and shows that we are children of our great Benefactor (Lk 6:35–36).4 It is difficult to understand Jesus’ teaching on money in Luke without a little insight into the conversations
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