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Kids Korner: More love, less stuff (October 13th)

Read Mark 10:17-31 with your family. Today a lot of people try to tell us what Jesus was most interested in. They try to convince us that it is the words we use, or the people we love, or the choices we make. But Jesus spent a great deal of time telling the rich and…
Sunday Reflection – October 6, 2024

Divorce, and being like children Mark 10 2 Some Pharisees wanted to test Jesus. So they came up to him and asked if it was right for a man to divorce his wife. 3 Jesus asked them, “What does the Law of Moses say about this?” 4 They answered, “Moses allows a man to write out divorce papers and send…
Kids Korner: Being vulnerable (October 6th)

Read Mark 10:2-16 with your family. There are two stories in the scripture today, one talking about divorce and one talking about children understanding God’s world. The conversation on divorce is hard to understand when we are little because it is between two adults and the whole household changing. It can be sad, and that’s…
Sunday Reflection – September 29, 2024

Salt and fire Mark 9 38 John said, “Teacher, we saw a man using your name to force demons out of people. But he wasn’t one of us, and we told him to stop.” 39 Jesus said to his disciples: Don’t stop him! No one who works miracles in my name will soon turn and say something bad…
Kids Korner: Knowing God (September 29th)

Read Mark 9:38-50 with your family. One of the things churches find hard to remember is Jesus never asked anyone to follow a belief system. Jesus never asked anyone to sign a faith statement. Jesus never told anyone to memorize a bunch of theories about God and then repeat them to prove someone ‘believes’. No……
Sunday Reflection – September 22, 2024

First and last Mark 9 30 Jesus left with his disciples and started through Galilee. He did not want anyone to know about it, 31 because he was teaching the disciples that the Son of Man would be handed over to people who would kill him. But three days later he would rise to life. 32 The disciples did not understand…
Kids Korner: Accepting children (September 22nd)

Read Mark 9:30-37 with your family. Adults don’t always understand children, but Jesus did. Jesus showed children being an important part of his community. Children in Jesus’ day were almost always at home being taught how to read and write and do math by their mothers and the other people in the household. They were…
Sunday Reflection – September 15, 2024

Who do you say Jesus is? Mark 8 27 Jesus and his disciples went to the villages near the town of Caesarea Philippi. As they were walking along, he asked them, “What do people say about me?” 28 The disciples answered, “Some say you are John the Baptist or maybe Elijah.Others say you are one of the prophets.”…
Kids Korner: Following Jesus (September 15th)

Read Mark 8:27-38 with your family. Jesus had very good friends, but those friends did not always understand what Jesus was doing or why he had to challenge the religious authorities in the Temple in Jerusalem. They wanted Jesus to stay with them so they could continue enjoying his company as they travelled around meeting,…
Sunday Reflection – September 8, 2024

Healing and helping Mark 7 24 Jesus left and went to the region near the town of Tyre, where he stayed in someone’s home. He did not want people to know he was there, but they found out anyway. 25 A woman whose daughter had an evil spirit in her heard where Jesus was. And at once she came…