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Kids Korner: Jesus & the Sadducee (November 6th)
Read Luke 20:27-40 with your family. Jesus was often challenged by those who were part of the Temple. They wanted to prove that Jesus didn’t understand God or the scriptures, but Jesus rarely answered their questions directly, instead Jesus would talk about something else, showing that the person asking the question was the one who…
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Sunday Reflection – October 30, 2022
Visiting with Zacchaeus Luke 19 Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through town. 2 A man there named Zacchaeus, a ruler among tax collectors, was rich. 3 He was trying to see who Jesus was, but, being a short man, he couldn’t because of the crowd. 4 So he ran ahead and climbed up a sycamore tree so he could see…
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Kids Korner: Jesus visits Zacchaeus (October 30th)
Read Luke 19:1-10 with your family. The Gospel of Luke has a lot to say about money and how people with too much money usually don’t want to hear the word of God because money is meant for sharing and people with lots of money don’t share as much as they should. Zacchaeus was a…
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Sunday Reflection – October 23, 2022
Finding Humility Luke 18 9 Jesus told this parable to certain people who had convinced themselves that they were righteous and who looked on everyone else with disgust:10 “Two people went up to the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed about himself with these words,…
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Kids Korner: Honesty & Humility (October 23rd)
Read Luke 18:9-14 with your family. The Gospel of Luke doesn’t like Pharisees very much. The writer thought them too full of themselves and too focused on the rules. Jesus, on the other hand, showed people that rules were not very important. The important thing was how we live. Today’s reading from Luke shows Jesus…
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Sunday Reflection – October 16, 2022
Justice for the Faithful Luke 18 Jesus was telling them a parable about their need to pray continuously and not to be discouraged. 2 He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected people. 3 In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him, asking, ‘Give me justice in this…
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Kids Korner: Giving Justice (October 16th)
Read Luke 18:1-8 with your family. This is one of Jesus’ harder parables. Both the widow and the judge are not nice people. The Bible uses the word ‘justice’ but in the original language the widow wanted ‘vengeance’, meaning she wanted the other people punished. The judge was scared she would punch him in the…
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Sunday Reflection – Thanksgiving Sunday, October 9, 2022
Bread of Life John 6 25 When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?” 26 Jesus replied, “I assure you that you are looking for me not because you saw miraculous signs but because you ate all the food you wanted. 27 Don’t work for the food…
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Kids Korner: Thanksgiving Sunday (October 9th)
Read Luke 17:5-10 with your family. This is one of those hard-to-understand parts of the Bible, but on Thanksgiving Sunday the image of God being greater than food fits into our celebration of God being the source of life that gives us everything we need to live and make a new world where everyone has…
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Sunday Reflection – October 2, 2022
Increasing Faith Luke 17 5 The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” 6 The Lord replied, “If you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you. 7 “Would any of you say to your servant, who had…
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