Tag: Hunger
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Living Bread Or Manna? – A Sermon On John 6:35, 41-51
My parents have some life-long friends named Nick and JoBeth. They all grew up together and married about the same time. Their kids were friends with my sister and me. Nick died a few years ago but my mom still tells the bread story. Shortly after they married JoBeth started making Nick homemade bread every Read more
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“But I’m Really Hungry!” – A Sermon On John 6:35, 41-51
When my younger son was about three or four he came into the kitchen one evening and said he was hungry. I told him I was working on supper and it would be a little bit longer. “But I’m really hungry,” he said. Then he opened the pantry, pointed, and said, “Just open a box!” Read more
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Satisfying Our Hunger
John 6:26. “Jesus answered them, ‘Very truly, I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves.’” The crowds that follow Jesus all throughout John’s stories are back again today, hungry (again) and looking for the next loaf. They want Jesus’ bread but Read more
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It’s Not About the Math
John 6:5. “When he looked up and saw a large crowd coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, ‘Where are we to buy bread for these people to eat?’” Do the math: one loaf for every thousand people and half a fish for every one thousand two hundred fifty people. “Six month’s wages would not Read more
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You Are What You Eat
So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for Jesus. 25When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?” 26Jesus answered them, “Very truly, I tell you, Read more
Interrupting the Silence 