Bread

  • Weekly bread daily

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    Americans don’t have a daily bread culture. We don’t shop daily. We set things up for the week. Which means we miss the point.

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  • Revising the Guest List

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    Jesus is a terrible guest at your dinner party. While you’re worrying about who’s going to show up, he’s inviting everyone in. Jesus and the art of the dinner partyProper 17C | Luke 14:1,7-14 When I was young, I loved sleepovers. This was the real political currency of junior high school. Whose house you went…

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  • They Did Not Understand About the Loaves

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    They Did Not Understand About the Loaves (Day 21 of A Simple Lent) Friday This is one of the most pointed moments in the gospel of Mark: Jesus has provided for the multitudes at a time when the disciples were exhausted and needed a break and Jesus wanted to give it to them, but he…

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  • About the Bread

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    a Homily for Proper 12B Text: John 6:1-21 Focus on the Feeding With the Feeding of the Five Thousand, we get one of the most recognizable stories of Jesus in the Bible. To many of us, this is quintessential Jesus. He feeds people. He performs a miracle. He instructs the disciples. He transforms how people…

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  • “First, imagine this is bread…”

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    “…everybody got it?  OK, because you’re never going to believe what else it is.” I found this picture online and that is the first thing that popped into my head. Jonny Baker, in his blog, directed his readers to an article in the Church of England Newspaper entitled “The Eucharist re-examined“.  You’ll find the picture…

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