This Sunday, we wrap up the summer with one more reading about Jesus as the bread of life. It’s language that we’re used to from celebrating Holy Communion every Sunday, but for those first hearing Jesus’ teaching (and still for
Following last week’s unique grocery shopping church service, this was another special Sunday as both of the congregations I serve gathered along with our United Methodist neighbors for a shared worship in the park in Port Washington. This is the
For this week’s worship service, I got to put into practice an idea I’d come across and saved from six years ago when John’s account of Jesus feeding the 5,000 came up in a previous lectionary: We went to the
In today’s Gospel lesson from Mark 4:35-41, we hear about Jesus and the disciples caught in a storm while crossing the Sea of Galilee. In the middle of the storm, Jesus is in the back of the boat taking a
In today’s Gospel reading from Mark 4:26-34, Jesus compares the Kingdom of God to a seed sown by a farmer. The seed grows, even though the farmer does very little. It’s not a particularly dramatic illustration, but perhaps that’s part