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

Essential question

John 6:56-69

Aug 22, 2006 by Cynthia M. Campbell

For five weeks the lectionary journey through the Gospel of Mark is interrupted by a brief sojourn into the sixth chapter of John. The chapter opens with two familiar stories from the synoptic Gospels: the feeding of the multitude (a story so important that it appears six times in the four Gospels) and Jesus walking on the water. Then there are dialogues, first with the crowd and then with “the Jews” (probably better understood as Judean officials) about the meaning of the miracle of the feeding and about Jesus’ true identity.

Living by the Word

Roll call

Ephesians 6:10-20; John 6:56-69

Aug 09, 2003 by John Ortberg

Jesus called the Twelve together and put the question to them with unsettling directness: Do you also wish to go away? I wonder sometimes how I would have responded to the question. Because at times the truth is I do wish to go away.

Living by the Word

True grit

Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25

Oct 23, 2002 by Talitha Arnold

He had real grit, that Joshua. When his fellow spies felt like grasshoppers and the Canaanites looked like giants, Joshua and his friend Caleb urged the Hebrews to take them on even though their compatriots threatened to stone them for their advice.

Living by the Word

Decisions

Sunday, August 27

Joshua 24:1-2, 14-18; John 6:56-69

Aug 02, 2000 by Heidi Husted

Woody Allen once remarked that humanity is at a crossroads: “One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.”

To whom shall we go?

The promise of Jesus

Mar 10, 1927 by Reinhold Niebuhr

“Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will you also go away? Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord to whom shall we go? Thou hast words of eternal life.”—John 6:67.

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