08.06.09

Brain Freeze!!!

Posted in Uncategorized at 7:43 am by Administrator

Well life in Hong Kong is getting into full swing. Our furniture has arrived and the kids and I are living in a place that now looks and feels like home. Praise God!

Today, Thursday, Aug 6, I led a workshop for Elementary teachers that covered different aspects of religious education. It was a good morning. Tomorrow I will lead a similar workshop for Middle and High school teachers.

I came back to my office after the workshop ready to jump into outlining my sermon for Aug 23. I have been working for three hours and have only experienced brain freeze. I take two steps forward and end up three steps backwards. So I guess it is time to write a bit.

The text for the sermon which has my brain frozen is from John.

John 6:41-51 (New International Version)

41At this the Jews began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” 42They said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I came down from heaven’?”

43″Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered. 44″No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day. 45It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’[a] Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me. 46No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father. 47I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life. 48I am the bread of life. 49Your forefathers ate the manna in the desert, yet they died. 50But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which a man may eat and not die. 51I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”

This is a difficult text, but rich in ideas. I am just not sure what to unpack from this text.

You can help.

Post a comment telling me what this verse means to you and how it encourages your walk with Jesus.

Thanks in advance. Blessings.