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Teen Time: Walking your own path (August 22nd)
Following Jesus means following love. Any group that tells you to dismiss others is not Jesus’ way. Breaking away from the crowd is hard, especially when you are walking it alone. However, being a Christian often means just that. The good news is you aren’t really alone, it just takes some time to see the…
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Sunday Reflection – August 15, 2021
Bread of life John 6 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.” 52 Then the Jews debated among themselves, asking, “How can this man give us his flesh…
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Teen Time: The Lord’s Supper divides the church (August 15th)
Mark, Matthew, Luke, and Paul’s 1st letter to the Corinthians tells us how to bless and break the bread, and share the cup. Depending on the churches we attend, the Lord’s Supper is called different things: Eucharist, Communion, Mass. This is the thickest dividing line between the Christian denominations today. Roman Catholics and most Orthodox…
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Kids Korner: Jesus tries to explain ‘Eat my body’ (August 15th)
Read John 6:51-58 with your family. It is okay if what Jesus says sounds strange. The people in the early church thought it sounded strange too, and a lot of people thought this meant the early Christians were cannibals! Some really smart people like Justin Martyr, who lived around 150 CE (about 50 years after…
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Sunday Reflection – August 8, 2021
Reflection Scripture Bread of life John 6 35 Jesus replied, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. 36 But I told you that you have seen me and still don’t believe. 37 Everyone whom the Father gives to me will come to me,…
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Teen Time: If Jesus has one message to us, why are their four Gospels? (August 8th)
Jesus taught us to love one another, to love God above all else, and to love ourselves. That message is the same across all Gospels. Mark was the first Gospel written around 60 CE. The format of Mark is like a Greek play where we are both spectator and participant, and in the end we…
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Kids Korner: God brings people to faith (August 8th)
Our Story About our story Read John 6:36-50 with your family. The people listening to Jesus had a hard time understanding what Jesus was trying to teach them. They looked at each other and said something like “we know his mom and dad, so why is he saying he came down from heaven and knows…
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Kids Korner: Jesus talks about life giving bread (August 1st)
Our Story About our story Read John 6:24-35 with your family. This is one of the hard-to-understand stories in the Bible. The characters in the story are confused about the difference between regular bread they eat and the ever lasting bread that Jesus was talking about. In the Hebrew culture, bread was a symbol of…
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Sunday Reflection – August 1, 2021
Reflection Scripture Bread of life John 6 24 When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and came to Capernaum looking for Jesus. 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…
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