Reflections for

17th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Jul 26, 2015

2 Samuel 11:1-15; Psalm 14; (2 Kings 4:42-44; Psalm 145:10-18;) Ephesians 3:14-21; John 6:1-21

Blogging Toward Sunday

Gaps in courage

Bread Summer 1: John 6:1-21

Jul 20, 2009 by Barbara Cawthorne Crafton

Bread summer is upon us. Few lectionary preachers are thrilled about coming up with five consecutive sermons on John 6, the bread of life discourse.

Living by the Word

A new kind of king

2 Samuel 11:1-15; John 6:1-21

Jul 14, 2009 by Daniel Harrell

I appreciate the lectionary’s knack for relating Old and New Testament texts, but I have no idea why King David’s adultery with Bathsheba is coupled with Jesus feeding the 5,000 and walking on water. Perhaps the intent is to contrast the bad behavior of David with the admirable acts of the Son of David.

Living by the Word

More than enough

John 6:1-21

Jul 25, 2006 by Charles Hoffman

The church of my youth majored in a miserly view of God’s grace. Its message was grim. Life had no edge, no elegance and no joy, but was only a bitter temporal existence largely limited to preparations for the sweet hereafter. Our bleak church building reflected the theology: it was aptly situated in the Pacific Northwest with its endless days of dreary, overcast weather.

Living by the Word

Bread and miracles

John 6:1-21

Jul 05, 2000 by H. Stephen Shoemaker

The feeding of the 5,000 is the only miracle recorded in all four Gospels. (Somebody once said that next to Homer’s Odyssey the Bible is the “eatingest” book in the world.) But John’s Gospel is the only one that sets the miracle at Passover. The connection is charged: It is God who feeds and saves, and a meal is a sign of God’s justice and mercy.

Features

Telling details

No safe parts in scripture

Sep 08, 1999 by Peter John Santucci

"Avoid abstraction," I was told as I prepared to speak to a group of junior high school students. "Seventh graders are still mostly concrete thinkers." The story of David seemed absolutely nonabstract and concrete, so I decided to use it as the basis of my talks.

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