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Sixteen-year-old Enola ( “alone ” spelled backwards), played by Millie Bobby Brown, lives with her mother, Eudoria Holmes (Helena Bonham Carter), on the family’s estate in England. Eudoria teaches her daughter every school subject, however unconventional, and how to fend for herself.
All of us are messengers of the kingdom. How devoted are we to that mission?
The cycle of growing, the passage of seasons, the risks of planting crops—all these activities teach a lot about life. Perhaps that’s why the Scriptures use farming images so frequently.
Jesus gathers a special group of his followers representing the twelve tribes of Israel. What we have here is the beginnings of the Church.
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MT 13:1-23 OR 13:1-9
On that day, Jesus went out of the house and sat down by the sea. Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat down, and the whole crowd stood along the shore. And he spoke to them at length in parables, saying: “A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path, and birds came and ate it up.
Jesus reached out in teaching and in action because people needed him. They were troubled and abandoned. They needed a shepherd, and the shepherd was Jesus.
Though keeping ourselves informed on the racial divide is important, sometimes we can find information and inspiration along the pop-culture landscape.
Jesus exercises power over death and illness. Calmly, effortlessly, he cures the sick and raises the dead.
On July 5, 1852, Fredrick Douglas, in addressing an anti-slavery conference in New York, said: “At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. O! had I the ability, and could I reach the nation’s ear, I would, to-day, pour out a fiery stream.
Good times are part of God’s plan for his people. No matter how grim the present reality may be, God somehow provides a happy ending.
