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| Summary: When we join the crowd at the seashore, we come to understand that God’s way with us is not one of bargaining but of wild abundance and generosity. And when we see what Christ can do with even the little that we do offer, the only thing that is needed is to figure out ways we can share God’s plenty with others. |
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| Summary: When Jesus outlined moral values, he put feeding the hungry at the top of his priority list. In fact he said that ultimately we would be judged on how well we did that. “I was hungry and you gave me food ….” Jesus fed a hungry crowd, but only after a young boy showed enough faith to give up his lunch. We too have a lunch basket, and we are called to faith. We are called to believe that with our “Yes” God will work miracles. |
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| Summary: Two popular responses to the accounts of Jesus’ feeding thousands of people are: “There must be a natural explanation,” and “It’s a miracle.” Neither is entirely satisfying. More to the point is who did it — Jesus as the presence of the creator. And his initial statement to his disciples reminds us that responding to the basic physical needs of people is part of the Christian community’s calling.
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| Summary: Even though we wish we could escape our own pain and the suffering of the world, Jesus’ actions in the feeding of the multitude call us to engage in healing and giving ministry. We need time apart to heal, but we cannot run away from the suffering of others. We offer comfort, grace and love. We meet the world’s needs as a witness to the time when God will overcome all of the needs of creation. |
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| Summary: Christ can help us set up a picnic in a deserted place, where we’re surrounded by needs great and small. Even when our store of food is ridiculously inadequate, the Master spreads a table before us. |
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| Summary: Your generous heart is everything God needs to make miracles happen. |
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| Summary: Jesus asked the disciples to go beyond the imaginable — to feed thousands of people with the meager resources and supplies they had. |
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| Summary: Jesus’ feeding of the multitude was a “miracle,” though not necessarily something that violated the laws of nature. It points us to the work of the Creator of the world who provides us with our daily bread by working with creations like the sun, plants, the earth and humans. Belief in God as the Creator of all things is part of the revelation of God that we are given in the whole story of Jesus. |
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| Summary: Often, we act against what our best thinking tells and inner certainties tell us. Then, when things go wrong, we say, “I should have known better.” We can begin to sink under the weight of such circumstances, but Jesus reaches out to us. We need to take his hand. |
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| Summary: Jesus is with us in the storms of life. We need to keep our eyes on him and trust him in everything. |
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| Summary: Going where no one has gone before, Jesus crosses the boundary of fear, helping us find hope in impossible situations and discover God at the brink of despair. |
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| Summary: Matthew, Mark and John all tell the story of Jesus walking on the water, but Matthew includes details the other two gospeleers do not. Those details help us to hear the message that rather than attempting to walk away from our problems, we are better to ask Christ to join us in our shaky crafts, trusting him to sail the rest of the journey with us, and to eventually land us safe on heaven’s shore. |
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| Summary: What’s in a word? Though some translations suggest the apostles were afraid that they were seeing a ghost, what really caused them to fear was they knew they were encountering the divine! How can we know that? This is the first spot in the Gospel of Matthew where a human being proclaims Jesus as the Son of God! We can call on Jesus and expect help, because truly, he is the Son of God!
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| Summary: What we see in this story of Peter’s adventure on the open water is one expression of faith, in a chapter out of the life and ministry of Jesus that shows us a number of varieties of faith, expressed in different ways. The primary exemplar of a true and living faith is Jesus. It is to his example, above all others, that we are to look as our guiding light. |
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| Summary: Jesus challenges us to believe in the impossible — and then to jump in to make it happen. |
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| Summary: This story is not a newspaper account of “An Incident on the Sea of Galilee,” but a symbolic tale that offers us a truth about what it is to be the church in a world of little faith that nevertheless longs for the presence of God. |
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