Reflections for

21st Sunday in Ordinary Time, Aug 23, 2015

1 Kings 8:(1,6,10-11), 22-30, 41-43; Psalm 84; (Joshua 24:1-2a, 14-18; Psalm 34:15-22;) Ephesians 6:10-20; John 6:56-69

Living by the Word

Sunday, August 26, 2012

John 6:56–69

Aug 14, 2012 by Wallace W. Bubar

What was Jesus thinking? He had such a great following before he spoke. He’d just fed 5,000 people, and they were ready to sign up to become disciples. This would’ve been the time to use his best preaching material—toss out a few Beatitudes, or tell a couple of stories about farmers or sheep. Jesus could have had the biggest church in town.

From the CCblogs Network

A new temple

Aug 29, 2011 by Chris Brundage

After Solomon built the Temple, or rather, after his laborers built it, he stood and offered a prayer for its dedication.  In his prayer, he admitted that the Temple, for all its human splendor, could not contain or limit God.

Blogging Toward Sunday

Jesus is abandoned

Bread Summer 5: John 6:56-69

Aug 17, 2009 by Barbara Cawthorne Crafton

This is a difficult moment in Jesus’ ministry. He loses some members of his band—maybe a lot of them: “many of his disciples turned back and no longer went about with him.”

Living by the Word

The armor of God

Ephesians 6:10-20

Aug 11, 2009 by Matt Fitzgerald

In one of its collections, the Art Institute of Chicago displays rows of medieval European weaponry—swords, rapiers, maces, daggers, helmets, shields and suits of armor—all encased in glass, every detail lit up by museum lights. The tools of war are both frightening and beautiful, with their intricate etchings and gilded filigrees distracting the viewer from their brutal purpose.

Features

Holy ground

A pastoral call

May 19, 2009 by M. Craig Barnes

It had been almost three months since I made a pastoral call on Jack Matthews, who is one of our elderly parishioners now living at Pittsburgh’s West minster Residences. He mentioned this to an elder, who might have said something to a few other church members.

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