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Teen Time: Jesus and modern healthcare (September 5th)
Jesus would have supported vaccines and a woman’s right to choose. Too many people are using the Bible as a reason to deny the use of vaccines and a woman’s right to make choices about her body. This is the wrong use of the Bible. How would Jesus deal with vaccines? He healed everyone who…
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Sunday Reflection – August 29, 2021
What contaminates a life? Mark 7 The Pharisees and some legal experts from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus. 2 They saw some of his disciples eating food with unclean hands. (They were eating without first ritually purifying their hands through washing. 3 The Pharisees and all the Jews don’t eat without first washing their hands carefully. This is a…
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Kids Korner: Things that defile us (August 29th)
Read Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 with your family. Do you know what ‘defile’ means? It means to make you dirty in your feelings and your thoughts. Jesus, his disciples and the Pharisee were all Hebrew people, and Hebrew culture had a lot of rules around food. Many Jewish folks today still follow them. They can’t…
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Teen Time: Sex, ‘values’, and teenagers (August 29th)
The church should be talking about sex with teenagers, more than simply “don’t do it”. The word ‘values’ often comes with conservative assumptions, but the truth is all Christians have values. Mainline and liberal Christians should be using the word more frequently, and one place we can do that is taking about sex. It’s natural,…
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Sunday Reflection – August 22, 2021
Bread of life John 6 56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in them. 57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me lives because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. It isn’t like the bread…
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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…
The Barefoot Evangelist 