Living in a [spiritually] barren land We are living in a wilderness. It doesn’t matter if your home is in the suburbs surrounded by convenience or a remote cabin in the woods – it’s all a spiritual wasteland as we read in today’s lesson from Isaiah. Living in this wilderness leaves us craving more. Our …
Hearing the Word of God is easy, a simple thing to do. Believing the Word of God is a whole other challenge. Our human nature resists belief and faith. We prefer to rely on reason, logic and tangibility. Of course, God knows this and Christ assures us in today’s sermon text that whoever believes will …
Without faith in Jesus, all we really have left is ourselves. It’s a natural condition to be preoccupied with questions of our earthly delights. “What shall we eat? What shall we drink?” In today’s Gospel reading the crowd had just been fed by Jesus and His disciples, a great miracle. When they saw that their …
While Pastor Jenson is on vacation this week, we invite you to listen to a sermon from 2009 titled “The Hard Saying”. Sermon text is based on John 6, 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will …
“I am the bread of life”. Jesus is challenged by a crowd as he preaches and relates to Old Testament teachings. He mentions Moses and that the Father sent bread from heaven, not Moses. Then Jesus shares that he is the bread of life. Note the tense Jesus uses not the past or future tense …