Showing Us God
For Sunday, September 6, 2015 – Mark 7:24-37 We all find ourselves there sometimes, in the dried up flat lands of Bottomed Out. Constant needs hurl themselves headlong into us, shriek our names, insist on our response until we feel utterly depleted by their demands. Does it help to know that Jesus, too, sometimes needed […]
Making New Traditions
For Sunday, August 30, 2015 – Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 Some are quick to notice that Jesus and his disciples don’t rigorously follow religious tradition, in this case washing their hands before they eat. How slow we are to see our own deviations from practices and patterns of faith, and how glad we are to critique others. “Why do your disciples not live […]
A Consequence
John 6:56-69 Jesus points out that there are consequences for those who “eat my flesh and drink my blood,” thus becoming one with him. One of these is that we will abide in him, and he will abide in us. To abide is to be at home. It is to dwell deeply, calmly, without endless straining and striving. […]
Living Bread
For Sunday, August 16, 2015 – John 6:51-58 Grain products comprised a majority of the food consumed in Jesus’ time. Bread alone provided from 50 to 70 percent of an ordinary person’s daily calories and was the staple food at every meal, such a vital part of life that the word could be used interchangeably […]
