Sermon for Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost – September 6th, 2015 Text: Mark 7:24-37 Revised Standard Version (RSV) The Syrophoenician Woman’s Faith 24 And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon.[a] And he entered a house, and would not have any one know it; yet […]

Text: Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 (RSV) Now when the Pharisees gathered together to him, with some of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem, 2 they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands defiled, that is, unwashed. 3 (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they […]

Text: John 6:56-69The Message (MSG) 53-58 But Jesus didn’t give an inch. “Only insofar as you eat and drink flesh and blood, the flesh and blood of the Son of Man, do you have life within you. The one who brings a hearty appetite to this eating and drinking has eternal […]

Text: John 6:51-58 51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh.” 52 The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can […]

Sermon for Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost – August 9th, 2015 Text: John 6:35, 41-51 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; he who comes to me shall not hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst. 41 The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, […]