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Sermon Text: Luke 3:1-21

Bryan Buck

N.T. Wright, Simply Good News

Many people today assume that Christianity is one or more of these things – a religion, a moral system, a philosophy. In other words, they assume that Christianity is about advice. But it wasn’t and isn’t. Christianity is, simply, good news. It is the news that something has happened as a result of which the world is a different place.

J.C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on the Gospel of Luke

Let us work on, and believe that help will come from heaven when it is most needed. In the very hour when a Roman emperor and ignorant priests seemed to have everything at  ...