Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. “I struck the board and cried, ‘No more; I will abroad…’” Those are the opening lines of George Herbert’s poem, “The Collar,” which we have reprinted for you as a bulletin insert. Herbert was an Anglican priest and poet […]
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen! In today’s Gospel lesson, we have our annual encounter with Jesus’ miraculous feeding of the 5,000. In actuality, it was more than 5,000, as Matthew tells us: “And those who ate were five thousand men, besides women and children” […]
Sermon: “Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread”
Text: Matthew 6:11
Focus: God provides for all needs of our physical bodies.
Function: That they would trust God’s generous, fatherly care.
Sermon: Got Bread?
Texts: Exodus 16:2-15; John 6:22-35
Focus Statement: God provides for all of our needs—physical and spiritual.
Function Statement: That they would trust and be glad in God’s gracious provision.