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Lenten Study 2023

Our journey through Psalms will begin March 1st and run for five weeks. During our study we will look at how the book was used by the Hebrew people and continues to be used by Jewish and Christian believers today. We will use the different genres of poetry found throughout as our entry point into…
Lenten Study 2023

Our journey through Psalms will begin March 1st and run for five weeks. John Calvin referred to it as the Anatomy of the Soul. Others have called Psalms the ‘Songbook of the Temple Period’ (roughly 600 BCE – 70 CE). During our study we will look at how it was used by the Hebrew people…
Sunday Reflection – Lent I, February 26, 2023

Jesus is tempted 4 The Holy Spirit led Jesus into the desert, so that the devil could test him. 2 After Jesus had gone without eating for 40 days and nights, he was very hungry. 3 Then the devil came to him and said, “If you are God’s Son, tell these stones to turn into bread.” 4 Jesus answered, “The Scriptures…
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…