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  • Kids Korner: Everyone can share Jesus’ message (September 26th)

    Read Mark 9:38-50 with your family. Jesus told the disciples that someone else teaching about Jesus and God is not a problem. Jesus came with a very big message, and it takes all of us sharing it to make the world a better place. Do not worry about mistakes or anything bad, just share Jesus’…

  • Teen Time: The importance of knowing the Bible (September 26th)

    Throwing Bible verses around does not mean you know the Bible. To know the Bible means studying what the writers were trying to say 2000+ years ago. Only from there can we understand the message in today’s world. When we know what was happening in the 1st century Palestine and before, we can start to…

  • Sunday Reflection – September 19, 2021

      Jesus predicts his death Mark 930 From there Jesus and his followers went through Galilee, but he didn’t want anyone to know it. 31 This was because he was teaching his disciples, “The Human One will be delivered into human hands. They will kill him. Three days after he is killed he will rise up.” 32 But they didn’t understand this…

  • Kids Korner: Jesus asks us to forgive (September 19th)

    Read Mark 9:30-37 with your family. Jesus loved children, and in our story today Jesus took a child on his lap and taught the disciples. He said everyone has to welcome children and people who were as kind and open as children, because when they welcomed children, they welcomed Jesus, and when they welcomed Jesus,…

  • Teen Time: God, service and power dynamics (September 19th)

    The word ‘submit’ is misused by many on the rightwing of Christianity. Serving or submitting to others is a choice, not a role to place based on gender or ethnicity. The scripture for Kids Korner and the Reflection for today is Mark 9:30-37. In that story Jesus tells his followers that the first must put…

  • Sunday Reflection – September 12, 2021

      Parable of the unforgiving servant Matthew 1821 Then Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, how many times should I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Should I forgive as many as seven times?” 22 Jesus said, “Not just seven times, but rather as many as seventy times seven times. 23 Therefore, the kingdom of heaven is like…

  • Kids Korner: Jesus asks us to forgive (September 12th)

    Read Matthew 18:21-35 with your family. Forgiving others is hard, especially if they really hurt you deeply. Sometimes people say “Forgive and forget”, but that isn’t in the Bible, and that’s not what Jesus said. (‘Forget and forgive’ comes from the play King Lear in the 1600’s, and the novel Don Quixote in the 1700’s.)…

  • Teen Time: Forgiveness is a repetitive action (September 12th)

    Forgiveness is not a ‘one-and-done’ action, it’s something we have to return to again and again, depending on the level of hurt. Think of forgiveness as doing exercises, curls or crunches: We would never do only one rep and think we were now in top shape. That’s how forgiveness works. It’s not about the other…

  • Sunday Reflection – September 5, 2021

        A mother challenges Jesus Mark 7 24 Jesus left that place and went into the region of Tyre. He didn’t want anyone to know that he had entered a house, but he couldn’t hide. 25 In fact, a woman whose young daughter was possessed by an unclean spirit heard about him right away. She came and fell…

  • Kids Korner: Jesus heals more people (September 5th)

    Read Mark 7:24-37 with your family. There are two stories of healing. In the second one Jesus uses dust and spit to heal someone so they can see, hear and talk again. It is a great story. The first healing, however, is the really special one. Jesus is tired and doesn’t want to deal with…