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  • Sunday Reflection – August 6, 2023

    Feeding more than 5000 Matthew 14 13 After Jesus heard about John, he crossed Lake Galilee to go to some place where he could be alone. But the crowds found out and followed him on foot from the towns. 14 When Jesus got out of the boat, he saw the large crowd. He felt sorry for them and healed…

  • Kids Korner: Feeding the crowd (August 6th)

    Read Matthew 14:13-21 with your family. The story we read today was so important to the early Christians that it is the only miracle story found in all four Gospels (the Gospel of John usually has different stories). Imagine sitting in that crowd so long ago. Matthew tells us there were 5000 men, plus women…

  • Sunday Reflection – July 30, 2023

    Parables of the Kingdom of Heaven Matthew 13 31 Jesus told them another story: The kingdom of heaven is like what happens when a farmer plants a mustard seed in a field. 32 Although it is the smallest of all seeds, it grows larger than any garden plant and becomes a tree. Birds even come and nest on…

  • Kids Korner: Heaven is like… (July 30th)

    Read Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52 with your family. We have bounced around Mathew 13 over the last few weeks. When the writer and editor put this chapter together, they picked up on the first part of a few stories later in the chapter. That is why we have been bouncing around. But all of Matthew 13…

  • Sunday Reflection – July 23, 2023

    Wheat & Weeds Matthew 13 24 Jesus then told them this story: The kingdom of heaven is like what happened when a farmer scattered good seed in a field. 25 But while everyone was sleeping, an enemy came and scattered weed seeds in the field and then left. 26 When the plants came up and began to mature, the farmer’s…

  • Kids Korner: Separating Good from Bad (July 23th)

    Read Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 with your family. People are not all good and all bad. People have both good and bad in them, and it’s how we choose to behave that makes the difference. In today’s story Jesus again uses the idea of sowing grain and helping plants grow. In this story the first sower…

  • Sunday Reflection – July 16, 2023

    Sowing Seeds Matthew 13 That same day Jesus left the house and went out beside Lake Galilee, where he sat down to teach. 2  Such large crowds gathered around him that he had to sit in a boat, while the people stood on the shore. 3 Then he taught them many things by using stories. He said: A farmer went…

  • Kids Korner: Jesus encourages the vulnerable (July 16th)

    Read Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 with your family. Jesus often taught life lessons in stories we call parables. A parable is a story that teaches a lesson. In the reading from Matthew today, Jesus tells the story about sowing seeds. His audience was full of people so excited about everything they had learned from Jesus that…

  • Sunday Reflection – July 9, 2023

    Finding Kindness and Hospitality Matthew 10 16 You people are like children sitting in the market and shouting to each other, 17 “We played the flute,    but you would not dance!We sang a funeral song,    but you would not mourn!” 18 John the Baptist did not go around eating and drinking, and you said, “That man has a demon in…

  • Kids Korner: Jesus encourages the vulnerable (July 9th)

    Read Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 with your family. So often in our church the person with the most money or the person who talks the most gets all the attention. Jesus did not pay attention to those people. Instead Jesus paid attention to the vulnerable and those who were struggling. Children were very important to Jesus.…