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  • 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…

  • 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…