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Need help in the bread aisle. Which loaf is best? That was the gist of a text that popped up from my dad a few weeks ago, ...
There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fishes; but what good are these for so many?’” the text continues. It is easy for us to feel overwhelmed. Notice that Jesus says ...
This week we celebrated the feast of Corpus Christi, now rather cumbersomely renamed (for the sake of those who were never ...
The five loaves of bread were barley loaves, which was a basic meal staple for people who would be considered working class during this time. I’m sure the young boy probably wondered what Jesus ...
There Elisha does not hesitate to feed the many with a pauper’s meal of barley loaves. Elisha’s concern—“You will eat and have some left over” (2 Kgs 4:43)—will be Jesus’ concern in ...
"One of the things that Daddy Bruce would talk about first of all was Jesus took two fish and five barley loaves and he fed 5,000." But these days it takes more than a couple fish and five loaves ...
Then Peter spoke: “Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?” Jesus didn’t respond to the disciples’ questions; instead ...