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John 6:56-59

Proper 16B

Comments and Observations: But how does it all end?  After plunking us down in John 6 for the whole of August in Year B, the Lectionary puts on the brakes before we can get to the end of the story where the REACTION of the crowds to all of this is recorded.  So I would…

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John 6:51-58

Proper 15B

Comments and Observations: In her short story “The River,” Flannery O’Connor depicts a child who actually drowns when trying to baptize himself in a river.  After this startling story was published, someone asked O’Connor about this grotesque depiction of baptism.  O’Connor’s critics thought this story was too extreme.  But her goal was to remind her…

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John 6:35, 41-51

Proper 14B

Comments and Observations: “Your forefathers ate the manna in the desert yet they died.” That’s what Jesus said and it’s a pretty easy verse to cruise past and not much ponder.  I mean, of course those people died—in fact, they had died about 1,000 years ago!!   And since no one even a millennium earlier had…

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John 6:25-59

Proper 13B

Sample Sermon: Never Go Hungry; A sermon on John 6:25-59 In a sermon I once preached on the famous  “I Am” sayings in John’s Gospel, I mentioned the Simon and Garfunkel song that had the line, “Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you. What’s that you say, Mrs….

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John 6:1-21

Proper 12B

Comments and Observations: Hang on to your hats, preaching partners, because we are beginning a 5-week odyssey in John 6.  Granted this is an important chapter but 5 whole weeks of preaching sermons on variations of Jesus being the bread of life can be a bit taxing.  Having skipped over the Feeding of the 5,000…

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