Relating, Creating, Transforming
John 6:1-21 There is a good quote from the movie Signs, written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. This is said during a scene in which a Pennsylvania family has just learned that creatures from another planet have started descending on earth. Their spaceships light up the sky all over the world. The father in […]
Read MoreMark 6:30-34, 53-56 A question for you, once again. Right now, in this moment, what do you want? Okay, a follow-up question. What do you need? It’s true, isn’t it, that what we want is often not what we actually need. Sometimes what we want is based on social conditioning. We want material things like […]
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Psalm 85:1-8; 10 I want to begin with a question. How many of you feel that your definition of who God is comes mostly from: What your parents or family raised you to believe? Or: From the Bible? Or: From a church? Or: From a spiritual or enlightening experience? Or: From personal life experience? Perhaps […]
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Mark 6:1-13 Have you ever been rejected? Sure you have! Wasn’t it great? Just kidding. Rejection stinks. I remember being rejected when I was thirteen. I wanted to sing. I loved music. I sang in the school choir. But my music teacher told me personally once, in front of some other students, that music wasn’t […]
Read MoreMark 5:21-43 Triage [in medical situations] is the process of determining the priority of patients’ treatments based on the severity of their condition. Triage is meant to make treatment of patients more efficient when there are not enough resources for all to be treated immediately. Triage comes from the French word trier, meaning to separate, […]
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