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  • Kids Korner: Temptation of Jesus (Lent I, February 26th)

    Read Matthew 4:1-11 with your family. Every year we begin Lent with the story of Jesus being tempted in the desert. This story has a lot of symbolism in it, and the early Christian church would have recognized the connections between Jesus and Moses, and the other stories in the Hebrew Scriptures. The forty days,…

  • Ash Wednesday Reflection – February 22, 2023

      Pillars of Lent Matthew 6  When you do good deeds, don’t try to show off. If you do, you won’t get a reward from your Father in heaven. 2 When you give to the poor, don’t blow a loud horn. That’s what show-offs do in the synagogues and on the street corners, because they are always…

  • Sunday Reflection – February 19, 2023

      Transfiguration Matthew 17  Six days later Jesus took Peter and the brothers James and John with him. They went up on a very high mountain where they could be alone. 2 There in front of the disciples, Jesus was completely changed. His face was shining like the sun, and his clothes became white as light. 3 All at…

  • Kids Korner: Transfiguration (February 19th)

    Read Matthew 17:1-9 with your family. Trans means change, and Transfiguration means the person of Jesus, his ‘figure’, changed. He was still himself, but there was a new sense of purpose and this time Jesus’ closest friends were there to witness Jesus once again being given the responsibility to make the world different. The disciples…

  • Barefoot Evangelist is on hiatus

    … taking some time for personal needs…

  • Sunday Reflection – January 8, 2023

      Baptism of Jesus Matthew 3 13 Jesus left Galilee and went to the Jordan River to be baptized by John. 14 But John kept objecting and said, “I ought to be baptized by you. Why have you come to me?” 15 Jesus answered, “For now this is how it should be, because we must do all God wants…

  • Kids Korner: Jesus gets baptized (January 8th)

    Read Matthew 3:13-17 with your family. Baptism is the special ritual Christian share to welcome someone into our family of God. This is one of the few practices we know was around when Jesus was alive. Jesus wanted John to baptize him, even though John knew Jesus was God’s son. Jesus showed John, and all…

  • Epiphany – 6th of January

    Traditionally this is the celebration of the Magi arriving in Bethlehem to meet Jesus. Although almost all nativity plays have the Magi arriving at the birth of Jesus along with the shepherd, the Bible story records the Magi arriving when Jesus was around two and lived in a house in Bethlehem. We only encounter the…

  • Sunday Reflection – January 1, 2023

      The Escape to Egypt Matthew 2 13 After the wise men had gone, an angel from the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up! Hurry and take the child and his mother to Egypt! Stay there until I tell you to return, because Herod is looking for the child and wants…

  • Kids Korner: Jesus becomes a refugee (January 1st)

    Read Matthew 2:13-23 with your family. We don’t spend a lot of time talking about Jesus as a child, and that is unfortunate. We have two stories from Jesus’ childhood, one when he is 13 and he stayed behind in the temple, scaring his parents (Luke 2:41-52), and this story from when Jesus was about…