August 6, 2015.Reading time 11 minutes.
John 6:24-35 Previously, in this chapter of John’s story, something like 5000 people were fed when there seemed to be a scarcity of food. A handful of loaves and fishes proved to be enough to feed everyone. After the event, Jesus and his disciples took a boat over to Capernaum, on the other side of […]
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July 31, 2015.Reading time 16 minutes.
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 […]
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July 23, 2015.Reading time 11 minutes.
Mark 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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April 16, 2013.Reading time 12 minutes.
John 21:1-19 SIMPSONS CLIP: Sometimes there are things that bear repeating. Other times, repeating again and again can be quite annoying! But repetition is what we do. It is how we learn. Everyone here has had to memorize something. Perhaps in school you memorized multiplication tables. Maybe you had to memorize certain dates in history […]
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September 12, 2012.Reading time 14 minutes.
Mark 6:30-34; 53-56 Healing and Feeding Today VIDEO: NYE DAY ONE Our NYE experiences began on Monday night at Mensch Mill Camp and Retreat Center, continued on buses for many, many hours through Pennsylvania and Ohio, eventually landing us in West Lafayette, Indiana and Purdue University. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday were filled with countless […]
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