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Year B - Ordinary 18 Video Response

In Archived Video

You're Going the Wrong Way!

Epistle  Reading:  Ephesians 4:1-16

For Sunday, August 5, 2012; Year B—Ordinary 18

I love the movie Planes, Trains and Automobiles staring Steve Martin and the late John Candy. In one scene, John...

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Why Do You Seek Jesus?

Gospel Reading:  John 6:24 - 35

For Sunday, August 5, 2012: Year B—Ordinary 18

I don’t remember a lot of what I was taught as a kid in church. However, I do remember being taught this: If I didn’t...

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Loave Them and Leave Them

Who would leave Jesus behind?

by Danielle Shroyer

Gospel Reading:  John 6:1–21

For Sunday, July 29, 2012: Year B—Ordinary 17

I really wish, just for this week, this blog was called "The Strangest...

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This is No Man after God’s Heart

Old Testament Reading: 2 Samuel 11:1-15

For Sunday, July 29, 2012: Year B—Ordinary 17

The David and Bathsheba debacle is a terrible story.

It’s a tragedy of epic proportions. And worse, it’s a story...

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Year B - Ordinary 15 Video Response

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMypFBwhYsM

In Archived Video

Bad Girl of the Bible? Or Bad King?

A veritable Bad Girls of the Bible-fest.

by Lia Scholl

Gospel Reading: Mark 6:14-29

For Sunday, July 15, 2012: Year B—Ordinary 15

The life of Herod Antipas sounds like an episode of Jerry Springer....

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Michal

Literary Tool, Nagging Wife, or Real Person?

by Lia Scholl

Old Testament Reading: 2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19

For Sunday, July 15, 2012: Year B—Ordinary 15

I sat in a Southern congregation on Mother’s...

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Year B - Ordinary 14 Video Response

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4niBApEqWM

In Archived Video

Butt-Naked

Jesus’ Call for Authentic Ministry.

by Neal D. Presa

Gospel Reading: Mark 6:1-13

For Sunday, July 8, Year B − Ordinary 14

Preachers, you know what I’m talking about when I say how different it is...

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