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Today, March 8, Pastor Julie continues the series Tell Me Something Good with a sermon titled “The Good News Defies Our Calculations,” drawing from the feeding of the five thousand in Mark 6:30-44.
Five loaves. Two fish. Five thousand people. The disciples do the math, and the math doesn't work.
When Jesus tells them, "You give them something to eat," they can only see what they don't have — the limitations, the logistics, the sheer impossibility of the task. But Jesus isn't deterred by the disciples' calculations. He takes what little they have, gives thanks, and breaks it open. And somehow — in ways that defy the arithmetic — everyone is fed.
Jesus models a way of being together that turns scarcity into sufficiency: come together, share what you have, trust the multiplication.
The good news is, everyone gets fed.
Additional scripture reading: Isaiah 55:6-13