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  • Kids Korner: Being important (October 27th)

    Read Mark 10:46-52 with your family. Have you ever been at church or in a theatre or concert, and you wanted to see something so you demanded for people to move only to be told by adults to be quiet and sit still? That was what was going on with Bartimaeus in this story. Bartimaeus…

  • Sunday Reflection – October 20, 2024

    To sit beside Jesus in glory Mark 10 32 The disciples were confused as Jesus led them toward Jerusalem, and his other followers were afraid. Once again, Jesus took the twelve disciples aside and told them what was going to happen to him. He said: 33 We are now on our way to Jerusalem where the Son of…

  • Kids Korner: Being important (October 20th)

    Read Mark 10:32-35 with your family. So often when people are important they are celebrated. We are important at our birthdays when friends or family celebrate us becoming a year older. In school the important students are usually brought up front and nice things are said about them. In church the people at the front…

  • Sunday Reflection – October 13, 2024

    Giving away wealth Mark 10 17 As Jesus was walking down a road, a man ran up to him. He knelt down, and asked, “Good teacher, what can I do to have eternal life?” 18 Jesus replied, “Why do you call me good? Only God is good. 19  You know the commandments. ‘Do not murder. Be faithful in marriage. Do…

  • 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…