Come and study Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast,

The Whole Council of God. Father Stephen is a former Protestant pastor and Bible teacher in the

Reformed Church, but now an Orthodox priest serving at St. George Orthodox Cathedral in Charleston,

West Virginia.

So I'll do my usual...

The introduction to Luke,

so it takes so long going through a book now.

Remember, in the Old Testament, we were moving relatively quickly.

You know, so I'd only maybe once or twice say you can go back and listen to the first one.

But now, the New Testament, we're going so much slower. I end

saying that over and over and over and over again, and it feels repetitive. But the first

lecture, first Bible study on gospel according to St. Luke has the introduction. So you can listen

to that to your heart's content to get caught up at any point

Because we are taking our time and so you may very well have forgotten what was said on the

First day we talked about St. Luke's Gospel

So we get started here just a second like I said we're going to be in Luke chapter 14, verse 25.

Just to quickly get us caught up, we've come through sort of the first major sections of St. Luke's Gospel.

We saw there sort of the introductory material about the birth of St. John the Baptist,

the birth of Christ. Then we moved on into Christ's ministry in Galilee as he traveled and preached

and healed in Galilee. Then he took his journey down through Samaria, down to Judea.

And for the last few weeks, we've been at a sort of a series of episodes now that he's in Judea in the area around Jerusalem.

We're sort of reminded periodically that we're coming close to Jerusalem because we know that's going to sort of initiate the last major portion of St. Luke's Gospel. But right now we're in the

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