Tomorrow River Lutheran Parish

Sunday School Lesson on 1 Kings 15:16-24.  Trouble Between Israel & Judah.

Sunday School Lesson on 1 Kings 12:1-24.  Revolt Against Rehoboam

Reflections on John 16:12-15.  June 12, 2022

Reflections on Luke 3:15-17, 21-22.  January 9, 2022

Reflections on Luke 21:25-36.  November 28, 2021

Sunday School Lesson on Ruth 1:19 - 2:23.  Ruth Gleans in Boaz' Fields.

Sunday School Lesson on Judges 16:4-20.  Samson and Delilah

Sunday School Lesson on Judges 6:1-32.  Gideon Tears Down an Altar of Baal

Sunday School Lesson on Numbers 22:36-31:9 Balaam Before the King

Sunday School Lesson on Numbers 20:14-29. Troubles on the Way

Sunday School Lesson on Numbers 20:1-13. Water at Meribah

Sunday School Lesson on Exodus 24:17-18, 32:1-35 The Golden Calf

Reflections on 1st Thessalonians 5:14-24

Sunday School Lesson on Exodus 2: 11-25 Moses Becomes a Shepherd

Reflections on Matthew 10:40-42

Matthew 10:24-39 
The New Revised Standard Verson: 
24 "A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a slave above the master; 25 it is enough for the disciple to be like the teacher, and the slave like the master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household! 26 "So have no fear of them; for nothing is covered up that will not be uncovered, and nothing secret that will not become known. 27 What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light; and what you hear whispered, proclaim from the housetops. 28 Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell. 29 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. 30 And even the hairs of your head are all counted. 31 So do not be afraid; you are of more value than many sparrows. 32 "Everyone therefore who acknowledges me before others, I also will acknowledge before my Father in heaven; 33 but whoever denies me before others, I also will deny before my Father in heaven. 34 "Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; 36 and one's foes will be members of one's own household. 37 Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; 38 and whoever does not take up the cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 39 Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it. 
 
From Eugene Peterson’s The Message: 
24-25 “A student doesn’t get a better desk than her teacher. A laborer doesn’t make more money than his boss. Be content—pleased, even—when you, my students, my harvest hands, get the same treatment I get. If they call me, the Master, ‘Dungface,’ what can the workers expect? 
 
26-27 “Don’t be intimidated. Eventually everything is going to be out in the open, and everyone will know how things really are. So don’t hesitate to go public now. 
 
28 “Don’t be bluffed into silence by the threats of bullies. There’s nothing they can do to your soul, your core being. Save your fear for God, who holds your entire life—body and soul—in his hands. 
 
Forget About Yourself 
 
29-31 “What’s the price of a pet canary? Some loose change, right? And God cares what happens to it even more than you do. He pays even greater attention to you, down to the last detail—even numbering the hairs on your head! So don’t be intimidated by all this bully talk. You’re worth more than a million canaries. 
 
32-33 “Stand up for me against world opinion and I’ll stand up for you before my Father in heaven. If you turn tail and run, do you think I’ll cover for you? 
 
34-37 “Don’t think I’ve come to make life cozy. I’ve come to cut—make a sharp knife-cut between son and father, daughter and mother, bride and mother-in-law—cut through these cozy domestic arrangements and free you for God. Well-meaning family members can be your worst enemies. If you prefer father or mother over me, you don’t deserve me. If you prefer son or daughter over me, you don’t deserve me. 
 
38-39 “If you don’t go all the way with me, through thick and thin, you don’t deserve me. If your first concern is to look after yourself, you’ll never find yourself. But if you forget about yourself and look to me, you’ll find both yourself and me.

Matthew 10:24-39
The New Revised Standard Verson:
24 "A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a slave above the master; 25 it is enough for the disciple to be like the teacher, and the slave like the master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household! 26 "So have no fear of them; for nothing is covered up that will not be uncovered, and nothing secret that will not become known. 27 What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light; and what you hear whispered, proclaim from the housetops. 28 Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell. 29 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. 30 And even the hairs of your head are all counted. 31 So do not be afraid; you are of more value than many sparrows. 32 "Everyone therefore who acknowledges me before others, I also will acknowledge befor

Reflections on Matthew 10:24-39

Reflections on Luke 24:44-53

Responses and Conversation on John 11:54 -12:19

John 11:54 – 12:19  
54 Jesus therefore no longer walked about openly among the Jews, but went from there to a town called Ephraim in the region near the wilderness; and he remained there with the disciples. 
 
55 Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover to purify themselves. 56 They were looking for Jesus and were asking one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think? Surely he will not come to the festival, will he?” 57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus was should let them know, so that they might arrest him. 
12 Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. 2 There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him. 3 Mary took a pound of costly perfume made of pure nard, anointed Jesus’ feet, and wiped them with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. 4 But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was about to betray him), said, 5 “Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?” 6 (He said this not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief; he kept the common purse and used to steal what was put into it.) 7 Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She bought it so that she might keep it for the day of my burial. 8 You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.” 9 When the great crowd of the Jews learned that he was there, they came not only because of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. 10 So the chief priests planned to put Lazarus to death as well, 11 since it was on account of him that many of the Jews were deserting and were believing in Jesus. 12 The next day the great crowd that had come to the festival heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. 13 So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, shouting, 
 
“Hosanna! 
Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord— 
the King of Israel!” 
 
14 Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it; as it is written: 
 
15 “Do not be afraid, daughter of Zion. 
Look, your king is coming, 
sitting on a donkey’s colt!” 
 
16 His disciples did not understand these things at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written of him and had been done to him. 17 So the crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to testify. 18 It was also because they heard that he had performed this sign that the crowd went to meet him. 19 The Pharisees then said to one another, “You see, you can do nothing. Look, the world has gone after him!” 
 
Zechariah 9:9 
9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter Zion! 
Shout aloud, O daughter Jerusalem! 
Lo, your king comes to you; 
triumphant and victorious is he, 
humble and riding on a donkey, 
on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

John 11:54 – 12:19 
54 Jesus therefore no longer walked about openly among the Jews, but went from there to a town called Ephraim in the region near the wilderness; and he remained there with the disciples.

55 Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover to purify themselves. 56 They were looking for Jesus and were asking one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think? Surely he will not come to the festival, will he?” 57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus was should let them know, so that they might arrest him.
12 Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. 2 There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him. 3 Mary took a pound of costly perfume made of pure nard, anointed Jesus’ feet, and wiped them with her hair. The house was filled with the 

Reflections on John 11:54 – 12:19

Tomorrow River Lutheran Parish Videos

Sunday School Lesson on 1 Kings 15:16-24. Trouble Between Israel & Judah.

Sunday School Lesson on 1 Kings 12:1-24. Revolt Against Rehoboam

Reflections on John 16:12-15. June 12, 2022

Reflections on Luke 3:15-17, 21-22. January 9, 2022

Reflections on Luke 21:25-36. November 28, 2021

Sunday School Lesson on Ruth 1:19 - 2:23. Ruth Gleans in Boaz' Fields.

Sunday School Lesson on Judges 16:4-20. Samson and Delilah

Sunday School Lesson on Judges 6:1-32. Gideon Tears Down an Altar of Baal