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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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Teen Time: The narcissism of ‘are you saved’ (August 1st)

    Personal Piety means someone is only thinking about themselves and obsessing about their own getting into heaven. Jesus did not teach us to think only of ourselves. Salvation happened once for everyone, with Resurrection. From that point on we were all asked to bring about God’s new kingdom for everyone, not obsess about whether we…

  • A summer break…

    The breeze is blowing, the sun is shining, and Barefoot Evangelist is taking a short break to celebrate my birthday, redesign the website, develop new content, and prepare to launch my first podcast: The Preacher & The Pagan.

  • Sunday Reflection – June 27, 2021

    In-person services in most worship communities have resumed, so we are turning from weekly worship to reflections on the scriptures. Story Time Scripture   Two stories of healing Mark 5 21 Jesus crossed the lake again, and on the other side a large crowd gathered around him on the shore. 22 Jairus, one of the synagogue leaders, came…

  • Kids Korner: Jesus heals two daughter of Israel (June 27th)

    Proper 8 The long green season is called ‘Proper’ or ‘Even time’, or sometimes the “Weeks after Pentecost”. This is how we spend half our year. During Even Time we listen to the stories of Jesus that are not part of Christmas and Easter: Parables, Jesus’ healing folks, Jesus’ teaching about God’s world and Jesus…

  • Teen Time: Separating the institutional church from faith in Jesus (June 27th)

    The long green season is called ‘Proper’ or ‘Even time’, or sometimes the “Weeks after Pentecost”. This is how we spend half our year. During Even Time we listen to the stories of Jesus that are not part of Christmas and Easter: Parables, Jesus’ healing folks, Jesus’ teaching about God’s world and Jesus showing us…