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  • Kids Korner: Healing people (September 8th)

    Read Mark 7:24-37 with your family. Have you ever had someone say they were too tired to spend time with you? Jesus felt that way too. He was tired and just wanted to rest for a bit. But the people wanted Jesus, they wanted to learn from him and have his help. And they also…

  • Sunday Reflection – September 1, 2024

    Tradition vs. God’s expectations Mark 7 Some Pharisees and several teachers of the Law of Moses from Jerusalem came and gathered around Jesus. 2 They noticed that some of his disciples ate without first washing their hands. 3 The Pharisees and many others obey the teachings of their ancestors. They always wash their hands in the proper way before eating. 4 None…

  • Kids Korner: Who makes the rules? (September 1st)

    Read Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 with your family. People have a lot of ideas about how we are supposed to behave as religious people. Dress nice. Be kind even when people are hurting us. Never say bad words. Do what the adults say even when it doesn’t make sense. But Jesus never told us to…

  • Sunday Reflection – August 25, 2024

    Where else could we go? John 6 56 If you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you are one with me, and I am one with you. 57 The living Father sent me, and I have life because of him. Now everyone who eats my flesh will live because of me. 58 The bread that comes down from heaven…

  • Kids Korner: Jesus’ lessons are hard to understand (August 25th)

    Read John 6:56-69 with your family. Today we like to think that everyone loved Jesus back in the Bible times, and everyone believed what he had to say, and everyone understood, or mostly understood, what Jesus was teaching them. But that is not the case. Some people did not like what Jesus had to say…

  • Sunday Reflection – August 18, 2024

    My body, my blood John 6 51 I am that bread from heaven! Everyone who eats it will live forever. My flesh is the life-giving bread I give to the people of this world. 52 They started arguing with each other and asked, “How can he give us his flesh to eat?” 53 Jesus answered: I tell you for…

  • Kids Korner: “I live in you” (August 18th)

    Read John 6:51-58 with your family. Jesus talking about ‘drinking blood’ and ‘eating the body’ was beyond gross to those who would have heard these words in the first century, just as they are often heard as gross outside of church today. What did he mean? He didn’t mean his actual blood and body, did…

  • Sunday Reflection – August 11, 2024

    Bread of Life John 6 35 Jesus replied: I am the bread that gives life! No one who comes to me will ever be hungry. No one who has faith in me will ever be thirsty. 36 I have told you already that you have seen me and still do not have faith in me. 37 Everything and everyone that the…

  • Kids Korner: Understanding the gifts of God (August 11th)

    Read John 6:36-50 with your family. Jesus tried to explain to the people around him what the gifts of God looked like. He used bread as a metaphor, a word picture of how God gives us what we need when we need it. The people listening didn’t understand and started talking poorly about Jesus. What…

  • Sunday Reflection – August 4, 2024

    Bread of Life John 6 24 They saw that Jesus and his disciples had left. Then they got into the boats and went to Capernaum to look for Jesus. 25 They found him on the west side of the lake and asked, “Rabbi, when did you get here?” 26 Jesus answered, “I tell you for certain that you are not…