The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost September 8, 2024 Mark 7:31-37 How’s Your Followership? Followers of Christ See the True Purpose of His Power!   31Then Jesus left the vicinity of Tyre and went through Sidon, down to the Sea of Galilee and into the region of the Decapolis. 32There some people brought to him a man who was deaf and could hardly talk, and they begged him to place his hand on the man. 33After he took him aside, away from…

The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost September 1, 2024 Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 How’s Your Followership? Followers of Christ Obey His Law from the Heart!   1The Pharisees and some of the teachers of the law who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus 2and saw some of his disciples eating food with hands that were “unclean,” that is, unwashed. 3(The Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they give their hands a ceremonial washing, holding to the tradition of the…

The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost August 25, 2024 John 6:51-69 The Bread of Life — The Only Food We Really Need!   51I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.” 52Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” 53Jesus said to them,…