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What do we do when what Jesus asks of us is hard? Do we forget what he’s already done? Let’s set the context for the story when Jesus Feeds the 5000.

In my last post I presented the story of the Feeding of the 5,000 that I mashed together from all four Gospel accounts. The familiar tale is included in almost every child’s story Bible. It’s non-violent, has a happy ending, includes a child, features a calm, benevolent Jesus and doesn’t challenge the world order. Does…

Late that afternoon or evening the disciples came to him and said “…Send the crowds away so they can go to the nearby farms and villages and buy food and find lodging for themselves.”Turning to Philip, [Jesus] asked, “Where can we buy bread to feed all these people?” He was testing Philip, for he already…

Pope Francis provocatively said that not all self-proclaimed Christians are actually saved and going to heaven. Who does the Pope think is in and who is out? What does Scripture say? What do you believe?

We think you ought to know, dear brothers and sisters, about the trouble we went through in the province of Asia. We were crushed and overwhelmed beyond our ability to endure, and we thought we would never live through it. In fact, we expected to die. But as a result, we stopped relying on ourselves…

There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance, nothing to attract us to him. He was despised and rejected – a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way. He was despised, and we did not care. Yet it was our weaknesses he carried;…