Weekday Word w/ Eric

Welcome to Weekday Word with Pastor Eric

  • Innocent and Handed Over Anyway

    Scripture:“I find no basis for a charge against this man.” (Luke 23:4)“I will therefore have him punished and then release him.” (Luke 23:16)“You handed over and rejected… the Author of life.” (Acts 3:13–15) Luke is relentless in one particular way during the trials: Jesus is declared innocent, and still condemned. The system knows what is…

  • The Loneliest Prayer

    Scripture:“Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me… yet not my will but yours be done.” (Luke 22:42)“Jesus said… ‘No more of this!’ And he touched his ear and healed him.” (Luke 22:51)“Lord… grant your servants to speak your word with all boldness.” (Acts 4:29) Gethsemane is where Luke shows us the outsider…

  • The Open Table

    Scripture:“I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.” (Luke 22:15)“Do this in remembrance of me.” (Luke 22:19)“They devoted themselves… to the breaking of bread.” (Acts 2:42) Luke’s Last Supper is tender and unsparing. Jesus gives himself to friends who are about to fail him—betray, deny, fall asleep, scatter. And he…

  • The Widow No One Noticed

    Scripture:“He saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins.” (Luke 21:2)“This poor widow has put in more than all of them.” (Luke 21:3)“In those days… the widows were being overlooked.” (Acts 6:1) Late in Jesus’ final week, Luke places him in the temple watching offerings. And in the middle of all the public…

  • The King Riding a Borrowed Donkey

    Scripture:“He rode on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.” (Luke 19:28)“Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!” (Luke 19:38)“God has made him both Lord and Messiah—this Jesus whom you crucified.” (Acts 2:36) Palm Sunday is an outsiders parade in Luke. Jesus enters Jerusalem without the usual symbols of power—no warhorse, no…

  • Let the Children Come

    Scripture:“People were also bringing babies to Jesus… but the disciples rebuked them.” (Luke 18:15)“Let the little children come to me… for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.” (Luke 18:16) Luke tells it plainly: the disciples try to block children. They rebuke the parents as if Jesus is too busy for the smallest…

  • Standing Up Straight for the First Time in 18 Years

    Scripture:“There was a woman… crippled by a spirit for eighteen years.” (Luke 13:11)“Should not this woman… whom Satan has kept bound… be set free?” (Luke 13:16) Luke gives us a woman bent over for eighteen years. That’s not only pain; that’s long-term marginalization. People likely stopped seeing her. Her condition became her identity. Luke’s outsiders…

  • They Have Names

    Scripture:“The twelve were with him, and also some women… Mary… Joanna… Susanna… who provided for them out of their resources.” (Luke 8:1–3) This is one of Luke’s quiet revolutions: he names women as part of Jesus’ traveling ministry team. Not as props. Not as background. Luke tells you who they are—and what they do. In…

  • Do You See This Woman?

    Scripture:“Then he turned toward the woman and said to Simon, ‘Do you see this woman?’” (Luke 7:44) Luke tells a dinner story where a “sinful woman” enters, weeps, anoints Jesus, and is silently condemned. The host’s judgment is not subtle: “If Jesus knew what kind of woman this is…” In Luke’s world, women carried reputations…

  • Grief Stops the Parade

    Scripture:“When the Lord saw her, his heart went out to her and he said, ‘Don’t cry.’” (Luke 7:13) Luke tells the story of a widow in Nain who has lost her only son. In that society, this wasn’t just emotional devastation—it was economic and social vulnerability. A widow without a son could quickly become invisible,…

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