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Sunday Reflection – August 24, 2025

Healing on the Sabbath Luke 13 10 One Sabbath, Jesus was teaching in a synagogue, 11 and a woman was there who had been crippled by an evil spirit for 18 years. She was completely bent over and could not straighten up. 12 When Jesus saw the woman, he called her over and said, “You are now well.” 13 He placed his…
Kids Korner: Jesus heals on the Sabbath (August 24th)

Read Luke 13:10-17 with your family. Less than one hundred years ago, people were still treating Sunday as a day when nothing except attending church and reading the Bible was supposed to happen. Children were expected to be quiet and not play outside. There was no shopping of any kind. People did not run errands.…
Leaving toxic people behind

I was asked recently about toxic people and if we should keep forgiving them, the whole 70×7 and turn the other cheek stuff. To be honest, those two passages have been used to justify a lot of abuse and unacceptable behaviour, and we have to rewrite those scripts. Toxic people are draining and inconsiderate, and…
Sunday Reflection – August 17, 2025

Trouble, not peace Luke 12 49 I came to set fire to the earth, and I wish it were already on fire! 50 I am going to be put to a hard test. And I will have to suffer a lot of pain until it is over. 51 Do you think that I came to bring peace to earth? No…
Kids Korner: Following Jesus can be hard (August 17th)

Read Luke 12:49-56 with your family. One of the things we teach children is to be nice like Jesus was nice. But anyone who has been bullied or ignored can tell you sometimes being nice is not always the best answer. The lesson today is very hard for adults to hear, so it can be…
Who wrote the Gospels?

After last week’s blog post I got to thinking about how much people know about the Gospels in general. Sunday School education really doesn’t get into it, and most Sunday School teachers have never been taught the differences and assumed histories of the four Gospels in the first place. We have four Gospels in the…
Sunday Reflection – August 10, 2025

Possessions that possess us Luke 12 32 My little group of disciples, don’t be afraid! Your Father wants to give you the kingdom. 33 Sell what you have and give the money to the poor. Make yourselves moneybags that never wear out. Make sure your treasure is safe in heaven, where thieves cannot steal it and moths cannot…
Kids Korner: Stop focusing on stuff (August 10th)

Read Luke 12:32-40 with your family. Sometimes when we read stories in the Bible, we can easily pictures ourselves being there. As fun as that is, it is easy to let our imagination build a whole picture and we miss what Jesus was trying to teach. It happens to adults all the time, too. When…
Are the Scriptures lying to us?

In the first few centuries, those in educational leadership in the church tried to conflate or harmonize the Scriptures. In this past century Biblical scholars have been trying to untie those assumptions. So what does that really mean? I was chatting with someone this week who asked why in the Gospel of John, John the…
Sunday Reflection – August 3, 2025

Earth riches that do not last Luke 12 13 A man in a crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, tell my brother to give me my share of what our father left us when he died.” 14 Jesus answered, “Who gave me the right to settle arguments between you and your brother?” 15 Then he said to the crowd,…