John 6:24-35 I know that too much of the time I am among those who ‘work for the food that perishes’ rather than that which ‘endures for eternal life.’ I worry about things that in the end, do not matter. I check my bank account and my retirement account more often than I ought. I …
Tag: Pentecost 11B
God is Not Done
1 Kings 19:4-8 John 6:35, 41-51 Poor Elijah is surely in a bad place today. We know this to be so because he says so. We also know this is so because of things he has done just prior to our encounter with him at this point in the narrative. Just before this, he has …
“The Boy Next Door: On Another Senseless Shooting”
John 6:35, 41-51 In the avalanche of news about yet another mass shooting in our country — this one in a Sikh Temple south of Milwaukee — I find my mind and heart automatically travel back. For you see, it happened here in my community not that long ago. A heavily armed gunman entered a …
On Baking Bread and the Bread of Life
John 6:35, 41-51 I have been baking bread for as long as I can remember. It was a regular occurrence at the home I grew up in: the aroma of fresh baked bread. It was, I’m told, an even more regular happening in the home my mother grew up in back in the time when bread …