Category: Sunday Warm-up

Rich in the Eyes of God

Mark 10:17-30

Wealth and wisdom are the themes for this Sunday. What does it mean to be truly rich in this life. Obviously, Jesus’ answer is come,

From Dust We Came

Mark 10:2-16

Marriage and children are the focus of this week’s Gospel. That pretty much sums up life for most of us. What ties both together is the soulful value of humility that we must embrace.

Take Up Your Cross

Mark 9:30-37

In our Gospel this weekend, we have Jesus thinking one way and his apostles thinking the opposite. The apostles are of the mindset of moving up in this world. They bicker about who is the greatest.

Take Up Your Cross

Mark 9:30-37

In our Gospel this weekend, we have Jesus thinking one way and his apostles thinking the opposite. The apostles are of the mindset of moving up in this world.

A Cross-like Love

Mark 8:27-35

Authentic discipleship is not an easy thing. Jesus teaches us this Sunday that we must take up our cross to follow Him.

Authentic love always entails sacrifice and the highest form of love is to share it with those we don’t like or cannot reciprocate.

“Be Opened”

Mark 7:31-37

We hear in this Sunday’s Gospel Jesus command “be opened!” to the deaf and dumb man. In honesty, that’s all of us. We are all deaf and dumb in our own way and we all need the “opening”

A Heartfelt Worship

Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

Jesus emphasizes to us this Sunday that we must practice a religion of the heart. All the things that accompany our practice of religion –

Led by the Spirit

John 6:60-69

The gospel of John often expresses Jesus’ message in very mysterious words. One of those words is flesh. Last week the message was His “flesh is the life the world”.

Flesh for the Life of the World

John 6: 51-58

This weekend, Jesus continues his teaching about being spiritual food. He describes himself as flesh for the life of the world. Flesh is a provocative word.

The Living Bread

John 6:41-51 

Jesus in this Sunday’s gospel declares Himself as the living bread that came down from heaven. His hearers respond in disbelief because they know he is merely the son of Joseph and Mary. There lies the challenge tossed out to us this week. Jesus is inviting us to go to a deeper level. We can dismiss the living presence of Jesus or,

Bread of Life

John 6:24-35

This week Jesus makes the connection between food and doing the work of God. Like our bodies, our souls require spiritual food and energy to do the work that God asks us to do and our souls are nourished by prayer,

All Things are Possible…?

John 6:1-15

We are given an image of abundance this week. Fives loaves of bread and two fish feed a crowd that would take a small fortune to feed if the food had been bought and a huge amount is left over at that.